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 : explaining the logarithms, with new indices, Nepairs's rods or bones, making of movements, and the application of pendulums : with the projection of the sphere for an universal dyal, &c. /
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| Format: | Microform Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | The second edition with many large additions. |
| Series: | Early English books, 1641-1700 ;
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| Item Description: | Advertisement: pages [113]-[114] at end. Dedication signed: Robert Harford. Folded table mounted onto page 1. "Brigg's logarithms" (caption title; title page lacking?): [66] pages. "A table of artificial sines and tangents, for every degree and minute of the quadrant, fitted to the size of the logarithms. London : Printed for Robert Harford, 1679": [112] pages at end has special title page dated 1679. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. The first edition "collected out of the notes and papers of Sir Jonas Moore by Nicholas Stephenson" was published in 1674. cf. DNB. Microform. |
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| Physical Description: | 24 unnumbered pages, 120 pages, 66 unnumbered pages, 114 unnumbered pages |