The Measurers:
a Flemish Image of Mathematics in the Sixteenth Century
Figure 3
The use of a mathematical instrument, the astronomical rings, to measure the height of a tower.
Illustrated in Jean Taisnier,
De annuli sph�rici fabrica & usu
(Antwerp, 1560)
(catalogue no. 7)
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