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Record Nr.

UNISA996385470703316

Autore

Gunter Edmund <1581-1626.>

Titolo

The works of Edmund Gunter [[electronic resource] ] : containing the description and use of his sector, cross-staff, bow, quadrant, and other instruments : with a canon of artificial sines and tangents, to a radius of 10,00000 [sic] parts, and logarithms from an unite [sic] to 10000 with the use thereof in arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, mathematicks in the Bulwark neer the Tower / diligently corrected by Henry Bond practitioner in the mathematicks in the Bulwark neer the Tower

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by W.L. for Francis Eglesfield ..., 1662

Edizione

[The fourth edition : to which is added, the description and use of another sector with more lines differing from that of Mr. Gunter, both in form and manner of working : as also of a quadrant fitted with new lines serving the former uses, and many other, more accurately : /]

Descrizione fisica

4 pts. ([10], 152; [2], 36, [2]; [2], 109, [2]; 166, 64, [95], [73], 2, [1] p., 1 folded leaf of plates) : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

LeybournWilliam <1626-1716.>

FosterSamuel <d. 1652.>

BondHenry

Soggetti

Mathematical instruments

Sundials

Logarithms

Navigation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Added illustrated t.p.

Advertisement: p. [1]-[3] at end.

Added t.p. and separate paging ([2], 36, [2] p.): The sector altered, and other scales added.

Added t.p. and separate paging ([2], 109, [2] p.): The crosse-staffe.

Caption title and separate paging (64 p.): The general use of the canon, and tables of logarithmes.

Added t.p. and unpaged ([95] p.): Canon triangulorum, or, Table of artificial sines and tangents.

Caption title and unpaged ([73] p.): Ten chiliades, or, The logarithms of absolute numbers from an unite to ten thousand.

Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.



Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014