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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Printed by R. and W. Leybourn, and are to be sold by George Hurlock ... Joshuah Kirton ... and Thomas Pierrepont ... and William Fisher ...,
1658.
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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, pages 874, and volume 26, pages 329; DNB, volume 14, pages 395. "Chiliades centum logarithmorum" and "Canones logarithmorum" have special title pages with imprint: Londini, Ex Officina Leybourniana, 1658. Errata: pages [9] at beginning and pages [308] at end. Reproduction of original in British Library and Cambridge University Library. Entry for G479 cancelled in Wing (2nd edition). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([9], 96, [308] pages : illustrations. |