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 18, 2024.

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The Lvij. Theoreme. If two circles bee drawen so one withoute and other, that their edges doo touche and a right line bee drawenne frome the centre of the oneto the centre of the other, that line shall passe by the place of their touching.
Example.

The firste circle is A.B.E, and his centre is K, The secōd cir¦cle is D, B.C, and his cētre is H, the point wher they do touch is B. Nowe doo you se that the line K.H, whiche is drawen

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[illustration] diagram
from K, that is cen∣tre of the firste cir∣cle, vnto H, beyng centre of the second circle, doth passe (as it must nedes by the pointe B,) whiche is the verye poynte wher they do to tu∣che together.

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