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

Figure 44
The use of the nocturnal.



From Peter Apian and Gemma Frisius, Cosmographia, sive descriptio universi orbis (Antwerp, 1584) (catalogue no. 2).

See also figures 42 and 43

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