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Record Nr.

UNISA996385794203316

Autore

Newton John <1622-1678.>

Titolo

Trigonometria Britanica, or, The doctrine of triangles [[electronic resource] ] : in two books : the first of which sheweth the construction of the naturall and artificiall sines, tangents and secants, and table of logarithms ... : the other, the use or application of the canon of artificiall sines, tangents and logarithms ... :  the one composed, the other translated from the Latine copie written by Henry Gellibrand ... / / by John Newton .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by R. & W. Leybourn, and are to be sold by George Hurlock ... Joshuah Kirton ... and Thomas Pierrepont ... and William Fisher ..., 1658

Descrizione fisica

[9], 96, [308] p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

BriggsHenry <1561-1630.>

GellibrandHenry <1597-1636.>

Soggetti

Trigonometry

Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

The second part of Newton's work is translated from Gellibrand's additions in Latin to Henry Briggs' work published in 1633 under the title: Trigonometria Britannica. Cf. Ward, J. Lives of the professors of Gresham College, 1740, pp. 81ff; Encyc. Brit., 13th ed., v. 16, p. 874, and v. 26, p. 329; DNB, v. 14, p. 395.

"Chiliades centum logarithmorum" and "Canones logarithmorum" have special title pages with imprint: Londini, Ex Officina Leybourniana, 1658.

Errata: p. [9] at beginning and p. [308] at end.

Reproduction of original in British Library and Cambridge University Library.

Entry for G479 cancelled in Wing (2nd ed.).

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018