Trigonometria Britanica, or, The doctrine of triangles : in two books : the first of which sheweth the construction of the naturall and artificiall sines, tangents and secants, and table of logarithms ... : the other, the use or application of the canon of artificiall sines, tangents and logarithms ... : the one composed, the other translated from the Latine copie written by Henry Gellibrand ... /
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| Format: | Microform Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early English books, 1641-1700 ;
218:1. Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 456:8. |
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| Item Description: | The second part of Newton's work is translated from Gellibrand's additions in Latin to Henry Briggs' work published in 1633 under the title: Trigonometria Britannica. Cf. Ward, J. Lives of the professors of Gresham College, 1740, pp. 81ff; Encyc. Brit., 13th edition, volume 16, page 874, and volume 26, page 329; DNB, volume 14, page 395. "Chiliades centum logarithmorum" and "Canones logarithmorum" have special title pages with imprint: Londini, Ex Officina Leybourniana, 1658. Errata: page [9] at beginning and page [308] at end. Reproduction of original in British Library and Cambridge University Library. Microform. |
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| Physical Description: | 9 unnumbered pages, 96 pages, 308 unnumbered pages : illustrations |