The English globe being a stabil and immobil one, performing what the ordinary globes do, and much more / invented and described by the Right Honorable, the Earl of Castlemaine ; and now publish't by Joseph Moxon ...

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Title: The English globe being a stabil and immobil one, performing what the ordinary globes do, and much more / invented and described by the Right Honorable, the Earl of Castlemaine ; and now publish't by Joseph Moxon ...
Author: Castlemaine, Roger Palmer, Earl of, 1634-1705.
Publication: London :: Printed for Joseph Moxon ...,; 1679.
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Subject terms: Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.; Globes -- Early works to 1800.
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IV. To encrease or diminish a Line in any Proportion.

SUppose the Proportion were as 4 to 7, take the Line given between your Compasses, and setting it over on your Sector, at the Figures 4 and 4, the distance from 7 to 7 will be a Line encreast (in respect of the given one) as is the Proportion of 4 to 7; In like manner you must do, if any other Proportion were requir'd.

Now if you would diminish a Line as is 7 to 4, put over the Line given at 7 and 7, and the distance of 4 and 4 is the re∣quir'd proportion.