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The line of proportion, commonly called Gunter's line, made easie : a second part, with the addition of other lines, which may conveniently be put upon a two-foot rule, and their uses exemplified, in arithmetick, geometry, military affairs, trigonometry, astronomy, dialling, geography, navigation / by Wil. Leybourn ... ; to which is added a supplement, containing the description and some uses, of a convenient two-foot joynt-rule, upon which are inscribed divers lines and scales, sutable to all sort of artificers occasions, by John Brown.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection QA465 .L49 1675
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Measurement--Early works to 1800.
- Measurement.
- Mathematical instruments--Early works to 1800.
- Mathematical instruments.
- Slide-rule--Early works to 1800.
- Slide-rule.
- Astronomy--Early works to 1800.
- Astronomy.
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages, 191 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 166 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of folded plates : illustrations ; 14 cm (12mo)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by W.L. and T.J. for George Sawbridge ..., 1677.
- Notes:
- Signatures: A⁶ B-I¹², ²B-H¹².
- The supplement (leaves ²B1-H12) has special t.p. dated 1676.
- "The contents of the particulars contained in the preceding supplement"--last leaf.
- Local Notes:
- With: Leybourn, William. The line of proportion or numbers, commonly called Gunter's line, made easie. London : Printed by J.M. for G. Sawbridge ..., 1675.
- Imperfect: leaves A1-5 misbound at end of vol.; the rest of the text misbound between the prelims. and the text of the other work with which this title is bound.
- Plates imperfect: one plate torn along folds; another stitched at the inner margin so that it cannot be opened; two other plates wanting.
- Imperfect: leaf A6 wanting.
- Imperfect: tightly bound with some loss of text at inner margin.
- Cited in:
- Wing (2nd ed.) L1923A
- Wing (2nd ed.) B5042B (Suppl.)
- ESTC R2786
- Contains:
- Brown, John (Philomath). Supplement to the line of proportion, or, numbers.
- OCLC:
- 63551311
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