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

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Figure 27
Gauging a barrel.



From Adriaan Metius, Arithmeticæ libri duo: et geometriæ libri VI (Leiden, 1640).
The same woodcut appears in his Arithmeticæ et geometriæ practica (1611).

See also figure 26

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