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Record Nr.

UNISA996394548803316

Autore

Moore Jonas, Sir, <1617-1679.>

Titolo

A mathematical compendium; or, Useful practices in arithmetick, geometry, and astronomy, geography and navigation, embattelling, and quartering of armies, fortification and gunnery, gauging and dyalling [[electronic resource] ] : Explaining the logarithms, with new indices; Nepair's rods or bones; making of movements, and the application of pendulums: with the projection of the sphere for an universal dyal, &c. Collected out of the notes and papers of Sir Jonas Moore. By Nicholas Stephenson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed and sold by Nathaniel Brooke at the Angel in Cornhil, 1674

Descrizione fisica

[12], 120, [98] p., [7] plates (2 folded) : tables

Altri autori (Persone)

BriggsHenry <1561-1630.>

StephensonN <fl. 1674-1680.> (Nicholas)

Soggetti

Arithmetic

Mathematics

Logarithms

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Dedication signed: Nicholas Stephenson.

Plates pasted to verso of title page and A1r (latter plate is folded); plates inserted between A1v and A2r, A2v and A3r; plates pasted to last two blank leaves (last plate folded).

"Brigg's logarithms" has caption title, and follows p. 120 on ² B1r-² D3r.

Signatures:  A (italic)⁶ (A4 mis-signed A3) A-K⁶ ² B-² D¹²  (-² C12) ² E-² F⁶ chi² .

Tables of "Parts proportional", "Artificial sines & tangents" and several miscellaneous subjects follow the logarithms on ² D3v-² F6v.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018