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The description and use of a joynt-rule : fitted with lines for the finding the hour of the day and azimuth of the sun, to any particular latitude, or, to apply the same generally to any latitude : together with all the uses of Gunters quadrant applyed thereunto ... /

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Main Author:	Brown, John, philomath
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Printed by T.J. for J. Brown and H. Sutton, and sold at their houses, 1661.
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Quadrant. Dialing. Mathematical instruments.
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