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Record Nr.

UNISA996392180703316

Autore

Rudd Thomas <1584?-1656.>

Titolo

Practical geometry [[electronic resource] ] : in two parts: the first, shewing how to perform the four species of arithmetick, (viz. addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division,) together with reduction, and the rule of proportion in figures. The second, containing a hundred geometricall questions, with their solutions and demonstrations, some of them being performed arithmetically, and others geometrically, yet all without the help of algebra. A worke very necessary for all men, but principally for surveyors of land, engineers, and all other students in the mathematicks. / / By Captain Thomas Rudd, chief engineer to his late Majesty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by Robert Leybourn, for Robert Boydell, at the bulwark neer the Tower : and Samuel Satterthwait, at the Globe in Pauls Church-yard, neer the west end, 1650

Descrizione fisica

[8], 56, [4], 139, [1] p

Soggetti

Geometry

Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

In two parts, each with separate pagination; signatures continuous.

Part 2 has separate dated title page, reading: A hundred geometrical questions, with their solutions and demonstrations: most of them being resolved both arithmetically and geometrically, by lines and numbers, &c. By Captain Thomas Rudd, chiefe engineer to His late Majesty.

Annotation on Thomason copy: "May 4 14".

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018