This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...amount: first for the circumference it is agreed to be 360 degrees each degree 60 english miles each mile 1056 paces each pace 5 foot & each foote 12 inches all these multiplied the one by the other will amount to 1368576000 soe many inches doth the earth and seas contain in circumference the said circumference ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...amount: first for the circumference it is agreed to be 360 degrees each degree 60 english miles each mile 1056 paces each pace 5 foot & each foote 12 inches all these multiplied the one by the other will amount to 1368576000 soe many inches doth the earth and seas contain in circumference the said circumference multiplied by its diameter viz., 435456000, the product will amount to 595954630656000000: soe many inches square doth the whole face of the earth and seas conteyne according to the former calculation. Now the former somme of inches which the bookes require is a farre greater summe then the world conteynes then diuide the greatte number by the lesser and the quotient will bee 754 with a great fraction near a whole which signifies that the said number of bookes wold not bee conteyned in 754 such worlds as these if they were laid one by one, butt if soe bee they were to bee heaped all upon one world close packed then would the heape bee 18SA foote thicke rounde about or 754 bookes.one uppon another ouer the whole world. Imagined to bee dry land such is the strange operation & mistery of numbers that the changing only of 4 figures or bells shold amount unto such a prodigious sum. Another way to find out the changes of 3, 4, or 5 bells. This last might bee left out beeing trouble some. Yet a word more concerning the changes of 3, 4, or 5 bells without the said rule, first make a shift to find the of them: then against them you must sett the figures backeward as against 1234 set 4321 etts. When you have found them all you may chuse and place them as you please, as all the ones or twoes or threes to goe together before, or to follow one the other the first n0. to begin with the one the 2d with 2 and soe 3 etts or either to goe forward or bac...
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