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vations, computations and measures of Snellius and Van Musschenbroek.
His final judgement is: Snellius was a shoddy calculator, but the construction
of his base line nets was excellent and the measurement of his triangulation
as good as could be expected. As for the so called observations and cor
rections of Van Musschenbroek he remarks, that he doubts in many cases
the authenticity of these observations or to say it less euphemistically, he
proves that they are often falsified in a serious manner in order to get a
closing computation.
