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A, B.C.D. is the quadrate appoin∣ted, in whiche I muste make a circle.
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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.
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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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Therfore first I do deuide euery side in ij. equal partes, and draw ij. lines acrosse, betwene eche ij. cōtrary pric∣kes, as you se E. G, and F. H, whiche mete in K, and therfore shal K, be the centre of the circle. Then do I set one foote of the compas in K. and opē the other as wide as K.E, and so draw a circle, whiche is made ancordinge to the conclusion.