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The castle of knowledge (1556)

Recorde, Robert, 1510?-1558 · Imprinted at London : By Reginalde Wolfe · leaf 132

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he to heare more largely declared:the one is forthe appearance of (tarres; whiche feeme motte greatelt at theyr rifinge and fettynge: the other is , for the auoydinge of emptines, whiche as I haue often hearde, fo woulde 1 gladly ones ynderftande. | DE n Miafter. Thefirfte of-them appertaineth to… … it appeareth:fo the Sonne and the Mone and all other ftars being nigh to theearth,do fhew throughthe vapours thataf cend fr6 the ground,and therfore appear greater then they beieif the vapours be many,the ftarres thew the bigger:the caufe is,the interruptié and reflectió of the fight beames by, the…

Astronomy · Cosmography · Imprint 1556

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