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Estimatur autem latitudo huius Imperij per dietas quatuor mensium, sed longitudini non datur estimatio, eo quòd tenditur vsque Paradisum vbi nullus accedit.
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Holis autem, qu� est sedes Episcopalis Borealis Islandi�, sita etiam in angustissima & profundissima conualle, latitudo est circiter grad.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Estimatur autem latitudo huius Imperij per dietas quatuor mensium, sed longitudini non datur estimatio, eo qu騞 tenditur vsque Paradisum vbi nullus accedit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Holis autem, quæ est sedes Episcopalis Borealis Islandiæ, sita etiam in angustissima & profundissima conualle, latitudo est circiter grad.
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Exacta etiam vrbis Moscu� latitudo ab Anglis obseruata, interiorum Regionum emendati鵶 describendarum infallibilem legem pr鎠cripsit: Quibus oblatis adminiculis pulcherrimis, iniquum putaui tabulam hanc castigatiorem non reddere.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Et haec mensura qua facies cam: Trecentorum cubitorum erit longitudo arcae, quinquaginta cubitorum latitudo ejus: et triginta cubitorum altitudo ejus.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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Hence he defines latitudo uniformis as that which is represented by a line parallel to the longitude, and any other latitudo is difformis; the latitudo uniformiter difformis is represented by a right line inclined to the axis of the longitude.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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He shows that a geometrical property of such a figure could be regarded as corresponding to a property of the form itself only when this property remains constant while the units measuring the longitudo and latitudo vary.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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For the sake of lucidity, Oresme conceived the idea of employing what we should now call rectangular co-ordinates: in modern terminology, a length proportionate to the longitudo was the abscissa at a given point, and a perpendicular at that point, proportional to the latitudo, was the ordinate.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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St. Augustine agrees with him: "Erat latitudo in qua porrectæ sunt manus longitudo a terrâ surgens, in quâ erat corpus infixum; altitudo ab illo divexo ligno sursum quod imminet" (Enarr. in Ps. ciii; Serm. i, 44) and in other passages quoted by Zöckler (Das Kreuz, 1875, pp. 430, 431).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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