The artist's vade mecum: or The most useful arts and sciences improv'd and made easie. : Containing 1. The curious art of dialing, in drawing and placing all sorts of sun-dials by a true or more exact rule than hitherto found out. 2. Geometry applied to the most profitable arts of surveying, measuring timber, or any solid bodies; gauging casks, brewers tuns, wine-vessels, &c. 3. Finding the length and circumference answering any arch, in degrees and decimal parts. 4. The area or segments of a circle, whose whole area is unity, to the ten thousandth of the diameter; with many other useful tables, ready stated. 5. A compleat body of astronomy, or a view of the caelestial globe; places of the sun, moon, and fixed stars, the names of the most noted stars, in what signs they are posited; their longitude and latitude, &c. The doctrine of the primum mobile, and the account of time rectified and freed from error; compared with the Julian and Gregorian calenders. : To which is added, A compleat body of geography; describing all the empires, kingdoms, and states in the known parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and America. The like never before made publick; illustrated with 14 copper-plates. /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London: :
Printed for Eben Tracy, at the Three Bibles on London-bridge,
1698.
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| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | Publisher's catalog: pages [13-16] at end. Imperfect: leaf P⁸ appears lacking; plates 12-14 lacking. Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([29], 510, [16] pages, 14 leaves of plates : illustrations. |