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

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Figure 24
Introductory page to the first section of Blaeu's book, 'following the improper hypothesis of Ptolemy, which holds that the earth is stationary'.



See catalogue no. 23        See also figure 25

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