A treatise of such mathematical instruments, as are usually put into a portable case : Shewing some of their uses in arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, spherics, Architecture, Surveying, Geography, Perspective, &c. with an Appendix; Containing The Description and Use of the Gunners Callipers. And The Description of, and Precepts for the Delineation of, Ship-Guns and Sea Mortars. To this Treatise, is prefixed A Brief Account of Authors, who have wrote on the Proportional Compasses and Sector. The third edition, with many additions. By John Robertson, Librarian to the Royal Society.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robertson, J. (John), 1712-1776.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematical instruments--Early works to 1800.

Mathematical instruments.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii,[1],233,[3]p.,plates ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Treatise of such mathematical instruments, as are usually put into a portable case.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Nourse, Bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand, M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]

Notes:

With a final advertisement leaf.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T92245.

OCLC:

642739795