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: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Printed for Robert Harford ...,
1681.
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| Edition: | The second edition with many large additions. |
| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | Advertisement: pages [113]-[114] at end. Dedication signed: Robert Harford. Folded table mounted onto pages 1. "Brigg's logarithms" (caption title; t.p. 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 t.p. dated 1679. The first edition "collected out of the notes and papers of Sir Jonas Moore by Nicholas Stephenson" was published in 1674. compare DNB. Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([24], 120, [66], [114] pages) |