Violin fingerboard detail from Peter Prelleur, The Modern Music Master (1731).  Note how the sharped notes are closer to the nut and therefore lower in pitch that the flatted notes in the same chromatic position.

Violin fingerboard detail from Peter Prelleur, The Modern Music Master (1731).
Note how the sharped notes are closer to the nut and therefore lower in pitch that the flatted notes in the same chromatic position.