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A geometrical practical treatize named Pantometria, : divided into three bookes, longimetra, planimetra, and stereometria, containing rules manifolde for mensuration of all lines, superficies and solides: with sundrie strange conclusions both by instrument and without, and also by glasses to set forth the true description or exact platte of an whole region

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: Anno. 1591.
Call number: 487000:0281
Creator: Digges, Leonard (-approximately 1559)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 29 cm (folio)
Associated people: Digges, Thomas, (approximately 1546-1595.); Jeffes, Abel, (active 1583-1599,); Bowen, Ira Sprague, (1898-1973,)
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