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The Works of Edmund Gunter : containing the Description and Use of Sector, Cross-staff, Bow, Quadrant and other Instruments : with a Canon of Artificial Sines and Tangents to a Radious of 10.00000 parts .... to which is added The Descripton and Use of another Sector and Quandrant ... / by Sam. Foster
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The Deſcription tlie Hour. lines

Latitude N. 51 30 And ſo I gather the Inclination of thie

Oeclinat. 3 1 of the aal 80 f 5 this Me-55 8 ing to their Ang es at the

W 75 5 Dole, as in che ſecond Colunin of 9it!!!1 Then taking my Compa 57508 hand,KH. E Er. II. Sr. NM. I extend them from ehe Sine o 90 gr. unto 5 the Sine of 34 fr. 33 m. che height of chePole above the Plane, and find them toreach in the Line of Tangents from 15 gr.the Inclination of the Hour of f, to 8 gr.

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f 38. for the Ark of 1 from the Subſtylar7 13 35 25 7 and from 30 gr. unto 18 gr. 8 fn. 708 Merid. Subltyl. Hour of 12, agreeable to the third Prop,3 and from 45 gr. unto 29 gr. 33 bm. for tlie5 Hour of 11, and ſo the reſt, which I alſo

ſet down in the third Column of the Ta-FFF

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5 Theſe Arks being thus found, will ſerve3 975 dae for the drawing Ke A both on14 the South weſt Face and the North. eaſt Face8 N of this Plane, and alſo on either Face of thelie Plane that hath the ſame Declination, and the Poles in the South eaſtand North: weſt. 5r. By the help of a Thred and Plummet I draw a Vertical Line,ſerving both for che Meridian of the Place, and the Hour of 12.

2. In this Meridian Line L make choice of a Center at C, in the upperpart of the Line if it be the South Face, as here we ſuppoſe it, that theStyle may have room to point downward: but in the lower part of theLine if it be the North Face of the Plane, for there che Style muſt pointupwardls and upon this Center I deſcribe an occult Circle, reprelenting theDeclining Vertical belonging to the Plane. a3. I find a Chord of 18 gr. 8 n. the diſtance of che Subſtylar fromche Meridian of the Place, and inſeribe it into this Circle, from the Me-ridian unto A toward the right hand, becauſe in this Example che Meri-dian of the Plane falls among the Hours after Noon,(for other wiſe itmuſt have been inſcribed toward che left hand) and there I draw theLine CA ſerving for the Subſty lar. f 5 e

4. According to the Table of the Arks of the Plane from che Subſty-5 5. lar,

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