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

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Figure 3
The use of a mathematical instrument, the astronomical rings, to measure the height of a tower.


Illustrated in Jean Taisnier, De annuli sphærici fabrica & usu (Antwerp, 1560) (catalogue no. 7).

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