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Hier begynneth the book callid the myrrour of the worlde ...
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- Hier begynneth the book callid the myrrour of the worlde ...
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- [Westminster :: Printed by William Caxton,
- 1481 (after 8 March; ca. Oct.)]
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- Vincent, -- of Beauvais, d. 1264, -- attributed name.
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Early works to 1600.
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"Hier begynneth the book callid the myrrour of the worlde ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68843.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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whiche more auaylleth to Astronomye than ony of the vij other / ffor by her is compassed & mesured Astronomye Thus is by geometrye mesured alle thingis / where ther is mesure by geometrye / may be knowen ye cours of the ster¦res whiche alleway go & meue / And the gretenes of the firmament of the sonne of the mone & of the erthe / By geometrye may be knowē alle thynges & also the quātyte They may not be so ferre yf they may be seen or espyed with eye but it may be knowen / who wel vnderstode geo∣metrie / he myght mesure in alle maistryes / ffor by mesure was the world made / and alle thinges hye. lowe & deep /