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Record Nr.

UNISA996390179403316

Autore

Wingate Edmund <1596-1656.>

Titolo

Wingate's rule of proportion, in arithmetick and geometry: or, Gunter's line newly rectified [[electronic resource] ] : by Mr. Brown and Mr. Atkinson, teachers of the mathematicks. Fitted for all artists for measuring and building. Whereinto is now also inserted the construction of the same rule, and a farther use thereof, in questions that concern astronomy, dialling, geography, navigation, gaging of vessel, military orders, interest and annuities

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed by R.H. for W. Fisher, T. Passinger, R. Boulter, and R. Smith, 1683

Descrizione fisica

[20], 91, [5] p., [1] folded leaf : ill

Soggetti

Slide-rule

Ratio and proportion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A translation of: Wingate, Edmund.  Arithmetique logarithmetique--cf. Preface.

The words "Astronomy ... Annuities." are bracketed together on title page.

Includes preliminary contents and advertisement pages, and five final pages of advertisement.

Stained, tightly bound, and torn, with some loss of print.

Reproductions of the originals in the British Library and the Bodleian Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014