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English: Plate IV to accompany The Treatise on the Astrolabe.


Another form of the 'Pin,' shewing the Wedge cut into the shape of a Horse; from MS. Camb. Ii. 3. 3.


Fig. 8. Diagram, shewing how to draw the three 'principal circles'.


Fig. 9. Another form of the 'Rete,' from MS. Ii. 3. 3; cf. Fig. 2 (Plate II). This figure shews the 'Almury' very clearly.
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Source The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. III.
Author Walter W. Skeat

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