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The Description and Use of the Sector (1624)

Gunter, Edmund · leaf 351

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w on the plane,drawing right lines through the center and the termes ofthefe chords, fo the line B H (hall be the horizon, and hisperpendicular B V the axis of the horizon, and the reft thelines of altitude, according to their diftance from the ho-rizon. That done, confider your plane,which here… … 3 is the line between B the top of the ftyle and V the verticallpoint, tnd pricke that downe in this figure from B vnto V;then take out both the line VH and all the reft of the distan-ces between V the verticall point and the feuerall pointswherein the verticall lines doe erode the horizontall line…

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