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Surveying, 1551.
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Surveying, 1551.
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Using a quadrant with a plumb bob to calculate the height of a tower by triangulation, 1551.
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Surveying, 1551.
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Cross-staffs used for surveying, 1551.
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Surveying, early 17th century.
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Surveying, early 17th century.
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Title page of The Description and Use of the Sector by Edmund Gunter, 1636.
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Forms of astrolabe in use for surveying, 1650.
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Using a cross-staff to measure the height of a tower, 1617-1619.
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Surveying, from Levinus Hulsius Instrumentorum Mechanicorum, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1605. Artist: Levinus Hulsius
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Title page of Quadrans Apiani by German mathematician and astronomer Peter Apian, 1532.
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Method of measuring angles with a cross-staff, 1636.
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Finding the angular distance between two edges of a wood using a cross-staff, 1617-1619.
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Reconstruction of a clepsydra (water clock), invented by Ctesibius of Alexandria, c270 BC (1857).
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Per Georg Scheutz, 19th-century Swedish lawyer, translator, and inventor.
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Blaise Pascal, 17th century French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher, 1878
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Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician and astronomer, (c1850)
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Surveying and timekeeping, 1551. 
Surveying and timekeeping, 1551. On the left are various different kinds of sundial and a clock with a single arm. On the right a survey is being made of the height of the tower, using quadrants and, on the far right, a cross-staff. From Rudimenta Mathematica by Sebastian Munster. (Basel, 1551). 
Unique Identifier AR926236 
Type Image 
Purpose Public 
Size 3691px × 4730px 
Photo Credit HIP / Art Resource, NY 
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16TH CENTURY
ANGLE
ARITHMETIC
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Calculation
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Clock
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Cross-staff
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Male
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Mathematics
MATHS
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SEBASTIAN
Sebastian Munster
SIXTEENTH CENTURY
SUNDIAL
SURVEYING
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Woodcut