The description and use of a portable instrument, vlugarly known by the name of Gunters quadrant : by which is perform'd most propositions in astronomy, as the altitude, azimuth, right ascention, and declination of the sun, &c. : also his rising, and setting and amplitude, together with the hour of the day or night, and other condusions exemplified at large : to which is added the use of Nepiars bones in multiplication, division, and extraction of roots, also the the nocturnal, the ring dial, and Gunters-line, in many necessary and delightful conclusions, fitted to the understanding of the meanest capacity : collected and digested into this portable volumn, for the use of young practitioners / by a true lover of the mathematicks.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Gunter, Edmund, 1581-1626.

Series:

Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 961:10.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quadrants (Astronomical instruments).

Astronomy--Early works to 1800.

Astronomy.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 70 pages

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by T.B. for H. Sawbridge ..., 1685.

Notes:

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Attributed to Edmund Gunter. cf. BM.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1979. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 961:10)

Cited in:

Wing G2243

OCLC:

12562637