The pathvvay to knowledg containing the first principles of geometrie, as they may moste aptly be applied vnto practise, bothe for vse of instrumentes geometricall, and astronomicall and also for proiection of plattes in euerye kinde, and therefore much necessary for all sortes of men.

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The pathvvay to knowledg containing the first principles of geometrie, as they may moste aptly be applied vnto practise, bothe for vse of instrumentes geometricall, and astronomicall and also for proiection of plattes in euerye kinde, and therefore much necessary for all sortes of men.
Author
Record, Robert, 1510?-1558.
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[Imprinted at London :: In Poules churcheyarde, at the signe of the Brasen serpent, by Reynold Wolfe. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum,
Anno Domini. M.D.LI. [1551]]
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Geometry -- Early works to 1800.
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"The pathvvay to knowledg containing the first principles of geometrie, as they may moste aptly be applied vnto practise, bothe for vse of instrumentes geometricall, and astronomicall and also for proiection of plattes in euerye kinde, and therefore much necessary for all sortes of men." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10541.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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The seconde common sentence. And if you adde equall portions to thin∣ges that be equall, what so amounteth of them

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shallbe equall.

Example, Yf you and I haue like summes of mony, and then receaue eche of vs like summes more, then our summes wil be like styll. Also if A. and B. (as in the former example) bee e∣quall, then by adding an equal portion to them both, as to ech of them, the quarter of A. (that is foure) they will be equall still.

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