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Sources used by Thomas Harriot

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Bibliography

[1] Notes made by thomas harriot (1560-1621) on ships and shipbuilding. Mariner's Mirror, 99:325-327, 2013.
[2] Janet Beery and Jacqueline Stedall. Thomas Harriot’s doctrine of triangular numbers: the 'Magisteria magna'. Heritage of European Mathematics. European Mathematical Society, 2009.
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