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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proposed, of whi¦che I shall make a square quadrate, therefore firste I make a plūbe line vnto it, whiche shall lighte in A, and that plūb line is A. B, then open I my compasse as wide as the length of A. B, or B. C, (for they must be bothe e∣quall) and I set the one foote of thend in C, and with the other I make an arche line nigh vnto D, afterward I set the com∣pas again with one foote in B, A and with the other foote I make an arche line crosse the first arche line in D, and from the prick of their crossyng I draw .ij. lines, one to B, A and an other to C, and so haue I made the square quadrate that I entended.

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