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Description: Title page to "A geometrical practical treatize named pantometria" by Leonard Digges (1520–1559). Full title: "A geometrical practical treatize named Pantometria : diuided into three bookes, longimetra, planimetra, and stereometria : containing rules manifolde for mensuration of all lines, superficies and solides, with sundrie strange conclusions both by instrument and without, and also by glasses to set forth the true description or exact platte of an whole region / first published by Thomas Digges ... ; with a mathematicall discourse of the fiue regular platonicall solides, and their metamorphosis into other fiue compound rare geometrical bodyes, conteyning an hundred newe theoremes at least of his owne inuention, neuer mentioned before by anye other geometrician. At London : Printed by Abell Jeffes, 1591."
Title: Pantometria by Leonard Digges 1591
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Author: Leonard Digges (author). Engraver unknown. Printed by Abell Jeffes, London.
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