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Fabrica et vsvs : instrvmenti ad horologiorvm descriptionem peropportvni : accessit ratio describendarvm horarum a meridie & media nocte exquisitissima, & nunquam ante hac in lucem edita (1586)

Clavius, Christoph, 1538-1612 · Romae : Apud Bartholomaeum Grassium · leaf 46

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decli- nans , inclinatum que mudano axi ; ac proin- de fediones faciet ia planis parallelepipedi , fiuein fundameto ho- rologiorum parallelas redis A D, B C, & alijs parallelis . Quare tunc commodius horologia conftruetur ea ratione, quam in tertia figura fcholij propof.37.lib. 3. Gnomo nices… … poftcrloribus , id eft , in planis ad auftrum inclinatis , deorfum verfus , donec redum fit ad'Horizontem,hoc eft,ad triangulum ABC: eritq; propterea E A, perpendicularis quoque ad Horizontem , ex defiii.4.1ib. 1 1. Eucl. cum ad A D, communem fedionem Horizontis , ac trianguli A DE',…

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