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

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Figure 14
The use of the cross-staff.


Illustrated in Adriaan Metius, Primum mobile, astronomice, sciographice, geometrice, & hydrographice (catalogue no. 10).

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