| | Letter by Jacob Kurz of Senftenau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | And if the alhidade itself does not display everywhere, where it is passing, it is not intersecting a line and some point exactly in the middle (what is hard to distinguish), there is worked unnecessarily (to neglect the other disadvantages for now). |
 | | For example: the alhidade will pitch on the forty fourth section of the quadrant on both sides of which is ascribed thirty five minutes; the angle determined by the alhidade will thus take forty four whole degrees and in addition to it thirty five minutes. |
 | | The position of the alhidade according to his example is shown by the oblique disconnected line. |
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