The vvorks of Edmund Gunter: containing the description and use of the sector, cross-staff, bow, quadrant, and other instruments. With a canon of artificial sines and tangents to a radius of 10.00000 parts, and the logarithms from an unite to 10000: the uses whereof are illustrated in the practice of arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, navigation, dialling, and fortification. And some questions in navigation added by Mr. Henry Bond, teacher of mathematics in Ratcliff, near London. To which is added, the description and use of another sector and quadrant, both of them invented by Mr. Sam. Foster, late professor of astronomy in Gresham Colledge, London, furnished with more lines, and differing from those of Mr. Gunters both in form and manner of working. The sixth edition, diligently corrected, and divers necessary things and matters (pertinent thereunto) added, throughout the whole work, not before printed. By William Leybourn, philomath.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Gunter, Edmund, 1581-1626.

Contributor:

Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.

Foster, Samuel, -1652.

Bond, Henry.

Series:

Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1778:20.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 156 pages, 2 folded leaves of plates : illustrations

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Works of Edmund Gunter

Works of that famous mathematician Mr. Edmund Gunter

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Francis Eglesfield at the Marigold in St. Paul's Churchyard, MDCLXXX. [1680]

Notes:

With an additional engraved title page: The works of that famous mathematician Mr. Edmund Gunter.

With a half-title: The vvorks of Edmund Gunter.

With a final advertisement leaf.

Imperfect. Lacking "The sector altered", "The cross-staff", "The.

Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1987. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English Books, 1641-1700; 1778:20). s1987 miun a

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed.) G2242.

OCLC:

55718836