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Record Nr.

UNISA996395891303316

Autore

Norwood Matthew

Titolo

Norwood's system of navigation [[electronic resource] ] : teaching the whole art, in a way more familiar, easie, and practical, than hath been hitherto done.  Shewing, the projection of the plain scale: the sphere in plaino: astronomical problems useful in navigation: traverse tables: right lin'd triangles ... The description and use of a new instrument called encyclologium, or the sliding cirlces: which, with ease, resolves all questions of proportion, trigonometry, arithmetick, square and cube root, gunnery, mesuration and dyalling / / by Matthew Norwood, teacher of mathematical arts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for H. Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate-hill; and T. Wall, next the Tolzey in Bristol, 1685

Descrizione fisica

[16], 384, 11, [62], [93], 47 p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill

Soggetti

Navigation - England

Navigation

Geometry - England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes: Of gunnery : so much of that art is absolutely necessary for a sea-man to know, on p. 369-384.

Includes: The use of the tables of logarithms, on p. 1-11 (third sequence).

A table containing ten chiliads of logarithmes, for numbers increasing in their natural order, from 1 to 1000. London : Printed by John Gain, 1685" on [62] p. has special t.p.

A triangular canon logarithmical, or A table of artificial sines, tangents, and the complements arithmetical of sines ... London : Printed by J. Gain in Upper Moor-Fields, next door but one to the Flying Horse, 1685" on [93] p. has special t.p.

Includes: Encyclologium, or, The sliding circles, on 47 p. at end.

"Arrata" [sic] on p. 47 at end.

Imperfect: tightly bound with some loss of text.

Reproduction of original in: Christ Church (University of Oxford). Library.



Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0026