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Record Nr.

UNISA996391405603316

Autore

Gunter Edmund <1581-1626.>

Titolo

The works of Edmund Gunter [[electronic resource] ] : containing the description and use of the sector, cross-staff, bow, quadrant, and other instruments : with a canon of artificial sines and tangents to a radius of 10.00000 parts, and the logarithms from an unite to 10000 : the uses whereof are illustrated in the practice of arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, navigation, dialling, and fortification, and some questions in navigation added by Mr. Henry Bond teacher of mathematics in Ratcliff, near London : to which is added, the description and use of another sector and quadrant, both of them invented by Mr. Sam. Foster, late professor of astronomy in Gresham Colledge, London furnished with more lines, and differing from those of Mr. Gunters both in form and manner of working

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by A.C. for Francis Eglesfield ..., 1673

Edizione

[The fifth edition, diligently corrected and divers necessary things and matters (pertinent thereunto) added, throughout the whole work, not before printed /]

Descrizione fisica

[20], 309, [3], 224, [170] p., 2 folded leaves of plates : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

LeybournWilliam <1626-1716.>

FosterSamuel <d. 1652.>

BondHenry

Soggetti

Mathematical instruments

Logarithms

Sundials

Navigation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Added t.p. on p. [157]: The sector altered, and other scales added ... / invented and written by Mr. Samuel Foster ... ; and now published by G.L. London : Printed by Andrew Clark, 1673.

Added t.p. on p. [197]: The cross-staff, in three books ... / by Edmund Gunter. London : Printed by A.C. for Francis Eglesfield ..., 1673.

Added t.p. on p. [225]: Canon triangulorum, or, A table of artificial sines and tangents ... / by Edmund Gunter ... London : Printed by Andrew Clark, for Francis Eglesfield ..., 1672.

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.



Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113