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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