Norwood's system of navigation: : teaching the whole art, in a way more familiar, easie, and practical, than hath been hitherto done. Shewing, the projection of the plain scale: the sphere in plaino: astronomical problems useful in navigation: traverse tables: right lin'd triangles ... The description and use of a new instrument called encyclologium, or the sliding cirlces: which, with ease, resolves all questions of proportion, trigonometry, arithmetick, square and cube root, gunnery, mesuration and dyalling /
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London :
Printed for H. Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate-hill; and T. Wall, next the Tolzey in Bristol,
1685.
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| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Item Description: | Includes: Of gunnery : so much of that art is absolutely necessary for a sea-man to know, on pages 369-384. Includes: The use of the tables of logarithms, on pages 1-11 (third sequence). A table containing ten chiliads of logarithmes, for numbers increasing in their natural order, from 1 to 1000. London : Printed by John Gain, 1685" on [62] pages has special t.p. A triangular canon logarithmical, or A table of artificial sines, tangents, and the complements arithmetical of sines ... London : Printed by J. Gain in Upper Moor-Fields, next door but one to the Flying Horse, 1685" on [93] pages has special t.p. Includes: Encyclologium, or, The sliding circles, on 47 pages at end. "Arrata" [sic] on pages 47 at end. Imperfect: tightly bound with some loss of text. Reproduction of original in: Christ Church (University of Oxford). Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([16], 384, 11, [62], [93], 47 pages, [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations. |