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The Description and Use of the Sector (1624)

Gunter, Edmund · leaf 276

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lement of the latitude, ib the fame extent (hallreach from the tangent of the houre, to the tangent of thehoure-line from the meridian. Thus in the latitude of 51 gr 50 m. I extend the comparesfrom the fine ofpo^r.to the fine of l$gr.icm. and find thefame extent to reach from the tangent of i$gr.… … Thefe arks being known e, I may come to the plane, andthere by help of a thread and plummet draw a verticall line o 2 feruing 108 The %ftrifth* $ja <vtttiuU inclining Plane. fettling both fftthe meridian and the houre of 12, and thefubftylar $ th£h may I draw an occult vertical! circle,…

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