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cles represented nothing more nor less than
the first terms in the Fourier series, which
in the last century has become a basis of
such calculations, both in astronomy and
physics generally.
[Illustration: ”QUADRANS MURALIS
SIVE TICHONICUS.” With portrait of Ty-
cho Brahe, instruments, etc., painted on
the wall; showing assistants using the sight,
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