The works of Edmund Gunter : containing the description and use of his sector, cross-staff, bow, quadrant, and other instruments : with a canon of artificial sines and tangents, to a radius of 10,00000 parts, and logarithms from an unite to 10000 with the use thereof in arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, mathematicks in the Bulwark neer the Tower. / diligently corrected by Henry Bond practitioner in the mathematicks in the Bulwark neer the Tower.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Gunter, Edmund, 1581-1626.

Contributor:

Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.

Foster, Samuel, -1652.

Bond, Henry.

Series:

Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 714:12.

Standardized Title:

Works. 1662

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematical instruments--Early works to 1800.

Mathematical instruments.

Sundials.

Logarithms.

Navigation--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Physical Description:

4 parts (10 unnumbered pages, 152; pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 36 pages, 2 unnumbered pages; 2 unnumbered pages, 109 pages, 2 unnumbered pages; 166, 64 pages, 95 unnumbered pages, 73 unnumbered pages, 2 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 folded leaf of plates) : illustrations

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Edition:

The fourth edition : to which is added, the description and use of another sector with more lines differing from that of Mr. Gunter, both in form and manner of working : as also of a quadrant fitted with new lines serving the former uses, and many other, more accurately : / both invented and written by Mr. Sam Foster ..., now published from his manuscripts : the whole work examined, and in many places enlarged, by W.L.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by W.L. for Francis Eglesfield ..., 1662.

Notes:

Added illustrated t.p.

Advertisement: p. [1]-[3] at end.

Added t.p. and separate paging ([2], 36, [2] p.): The sector altered, and other scales added.

Added t.p. and separate paging ([2], 109, [2] p.): The crosse-staffe.

Caption title and separate paging (64 p.): The general use of the canon, and tables of logarithmes.

Added t.p. and unpaged ([95] p.): Canon triangulorum, or, Table of artificial sines and tangents.

Caption title and unpaged ([73] p.): Ten chiliades, or, The logarithms of absolute numbers from an unite to ten thousand.

Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1977. 1 microfilm reel. 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 714:12)

Cited in:

Wing G2240

OCLC:

12850061