Eadem ratione per omne spatium longitudinis et rutunditatis singulis decusationibus oblique fixae regulae per octo crassitudinis divisiones involutos faciunt canales et iustam cocleae naturalemque imitationem.
In the same manner, throughout the whole distance of the length and of the circumference, strips of wood are fixed obliquely at the several intersections and make channels which wind round through the eight divisions of the thickness: thus forming an accurate and natural imitation of a spiral shell.
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