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English: Drawing of the transversal scale in Tycho Brahe's quadrant, divided by means of transversal points so that five seconds of arc could be read on it. -copied from Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica- (the radius of Tycho's quadrant was about 2 meters)
Date 16th century
date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Source https://archive.org/details/TychonisBraheAs00Brah#page=108
Author mcapdevila
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