The works 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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gunter, Edmund, 1581-1626.

Contributor:

Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.

Bond, Henry.

Series:

Early English books online

Standardized Title:

Works. 1673

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematical instruments.

Logarithms.

Sundials.

Navigation--Early works to 1800.

Navigation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (20 unnumbered pages, 309 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 224 pages, 170 unnumbered pages, 2 folded leaves of plates) : illustrations

Edition:

The fifth edition, diligently corrected and divers necessary things and matters (pertinent thereunto) added, throughout the whole work, not before printed / by William Leybourn, philomath.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by A.C. for Francis Eglesfield ..., 1673.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Added t.p. on pages [157]: The sector altered, and other scales added ... / invented and written by Mr. Samuel Foster ... ; and now published by G.L. London : Printed by Andrew Clark, 1673.

Added t.p. on pages [197]: The cross-staff, in three books ... / by Edmund Gunter. London : Printed by A.C. for Francis Eglesfield ..., 1673.

Added t.p. on pages [225]: Canon triangulorum, or, A table of artificial sines and tangents ... / by Edmund Gunter ... London : Printed by Andrew Clark, for Francis Eglesfield ..., 1672.

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 599:1) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing G2241

Contains:

Foster, Samuel, -1652. Sector altered, and other scales added.

OCLC:

12157896

Access Restriction:

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