Harriot, Thomas, Mss. 6788

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              <s xml:space="preserve"> This folio is a rougher version of Add MS
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              At the top there is an alphabetic mnemonic for the first 8 digits of
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> 35,408,794,100,000 = circulus =
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            superficies terræ et
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            a plane circle equal to
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            the surface of land and water. </s>
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            maris et
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            The surface of sea and land.
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            The surface of the ]</s>
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            Saxton's map: Christopher Saxton's atlas of the counties of England and Wales, published around ] 49,987 miles square in (
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            by Saxtons map)
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            after 60 miles to a degree
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            including rivers & all </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> 50,000 miles. 5,000,000 persons.
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            1 mile. 100 persons. 70,817,588 miles. 7,081,758,800. persons (in the </s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> This subcalculation gives 10,000 square pases per person, converted next to 250,000 square feet, then to 5 and 8/11 acres.</s>
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            <s xml:space="preserve"> 1,000,000 pp. 100 persons.
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            10000 pp. 1 person.
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            10000 [square pases] =
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            250,000 [square feet] =
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            acres. (note rivers & waste included
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