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rants, large celestial globes and various in-
struments for special purposes. He lived
before the days of telescopes and accurate
clocks. He invented the method of sub-
dividing the degrees on the arc of an in-
strument by transversals somewhat in the
way that Pedro Nunez had proposed.
He originated the true system of obser-
vation and reduction of observations, recog-
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