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A fine, ingenious and useful invention was that of the ancients for casting the points and circles of the sphere onto planes with proportion and correspondence of ratios, because its demonstrations were of the greatest benefit to the investigators of celestial things.
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Williams, K., Monteleone, C. (2021). Part VI, which is called Planispherio. In: Daniele Barbaro’s Perspective of 1568. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76687-0_9
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