The Measurers:
a Flemish Image of Mathematics in the Sixteenth Century
Figure 45
Altitudes taken with the astronomical rings applied to surveying.
From Pierre Beausard, Annuli astronomici (Antwerp, 1553)
(catalogue no. 6).
See also figures 46, 47 and 48
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