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The Description and Use of the Sector (1624)

Gunter, Edmund · leaf 287

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eridian line I make choice of a center at C,in thevpperpart of the line,if it be the Southface, as here we fup-pofe it, that the ftyle may haue roome to point downward;but in the lower part of the line,if it be the North face of theplane5 for there the ftyle mil ft point vpward: and vpon thiscenter… … The ae[crtptim of 4 vcrtialfdecuning Mine. i 17 cle,from the meridian vnto A toward gt^c MMthand, be-caufe in this example the meridian of th emplane falls a-mong the houres after noone, (for otherwife it rnuft hauebeen inferibed toward the left hand) and there I draw theline C A feruing for the…

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