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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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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Castlemaine, Roger Palmer, Earl of, 1634-1705.
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London :: Printed for Joseph Moxon ...,
1679.
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Astronomy -- Early works to 1800.
Globes -- Early works to 1800.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A31232.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.

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V. Two Lines being given, to find a Third Proportional.

FIND by your Compasses how many parts of the equal Di∣visions of your Sector will measure both your given Lines, so that supposing the one to contain 10 parts, and the other 20, set the second Line (i. e. the Line 20) over at 10, and 10 on the Sector, and the distance or Parallel at 20, and 20 on the Sector, will be 40, the requir'd Proportional.

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