The Measurers:
a Flemish Image of Mathematics in the Sixteenth Century

Figure 13
Measuring the solar altitude with a mariner's astrolabe.



Illustrated in Adriaan Metius, De genuino usu utriusque globi tractatus (catalogue no. 8).

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