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Maraldi, being struck with the fact that the lozenge-shaped 
plates always had the same angles, took the trouble to 
measure them, and found that in each lozenge the large 
angles measured 109° 28’, and the smaller 70° 32’, the 
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two together making 180°, the equivalent of two right 
angles. He also noted the fact that the apex of the three- 
sided cup was formed by the union of three of the greater 
angles. The three united lozenges are seen at fig. I. 
Some time afterwards, Reaumur, thinking that this re- 
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