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Record Nr.

UNISA996394687703316

Autore

Rudd Thomas <1584?-1656.>

Titolo

Practicall geometry [[electronic resource] ] : in two parts: the first, shewing how to perform the foure species of arithmeticke, (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 & 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, military architects, and all other students in the mathematicks. By Captain Thomas Rudd, chiefe engineer to his late Majestie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Imprinted at London, : by J.G. for Robert Boydell, and are to be sold at his shop in the Bulwarke neer the Tower, 1650

Descrizione fisica

[8], 56, [4], 139, [1] p. : ill

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: .. .

Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0167