A geometrical practise, named Pantometria diuided into three bookes, longimetra, planimetra, and stereometria, containing rules manifolde for mensuration of all lines, superficies and solides: with sundry straunge conclusions both by instrument and without, and also by perspectiue glasses, to set forth the true description or exact plat of an whole region: framed by Leonard Digges gentleman, lately finished by Thomas Digges his sonne. Who hathe also thereunto adioyned a mathematicall treatise of the fiue regulare Platonicall bodies, and their Metamorphosis or transformation into fiue other equilater vniforme solides Geometricall, of his owne inuention, hitherto not mentioned of by any geometricians.
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A geometrical practise, named Pantometria diuided into three bookes, longimetra, planimetra, and stereometria, containing rules manifolde for mensuration of all lines, superficies and solides: with sundry straunge conclusions both by instrument and without, and also by perspectiue glasses, to set forth the true description or exact plat of an whole region: framed by Leonard Digges gentleman, lately finished by Thomas Digges his sonne. Who hathe also thereunto adioyned a mathematicall treatise of the fiue regulare Platonicall bodies, and their Metamorphosis or transformation into fiue other equilater vniforme solides Geometricall, of his owne inuention, hitherto not mentioned of by any geometricians.
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Digges, Leonard, d. 1571?
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Imprinted at London :: By Henrie Bynneman,
Anno. 1571.
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Mensuration -- Early works to 1800.
Geometry -- Early works to 1800.
Surveying -- Early works to 1800.
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"A geometrical practise, named Pantometria diuided into three bookes, longimetra, planimetra, and stereometria, containing rules manifolde for mensuration of all lines, superficies and solides: with sundry straunge conclusions both by instrument and without, and also by perspectiue glasses, to set forth the true description or exact plat of an whole region: framed by Leonard Digges gentleman, lately finished by Thomas Digges his sonne. Who hathe also thereunto adioyned a mathematicall treatise of the fiue regulare Platonicall bodies, and their Metamorphosis or transformation into fiue other equilater vniforme solides Geometricall, of his owne inuention, hitherto not mentioned of by any geometricians." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20458.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 25, 2025.
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The .27. Chapter. The composition of the instrument called Theodelitus.
IT is but a circle diuided in 360 grades or degrées, or a semicir•••• parted in 180 portions, and euery of those diuisiōs in 3 or rather 6 smaller partes, to it ye may adde the double scale, whose sin∣gle composition is mentioned. The sides of that scale diuided in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 60, or 100 parts. The index of that instrument with the sightes &c. are
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not vnlike to that whiche the square hath: In his backe prepare a vice 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to be fastned in the top of some staffe if it be a circle as here: let you•• instrument be so large that from the centre to the degrées may be a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in length, more if ye list, so shall you not erre in your practizes, the ba•••• side must be plaine and smooth to draw circles and lynes vppon, as shal 〈◊〉〈◊〉 declared: for a farther declaration of that I haue sayde, beholde thys fy••gure folowing.
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