Figure from Stephen Johnston, ‘Making mathematical practice: gentlemen, practitioners and artisans in Elizabethan England’ (Ph.D. Cambridge, 1994). See the contents page for direct access to the chapters and the image gallery for the figures currently available online.
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Figure 2.1

The coat of arms of the Digges family, from Pantometria, 2nd edition (1591), p. [196].

Source: Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford

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