The works of Edmund Gunter [electronic resource] : containing the description and use of the sector,...
The works of Edmund Gunter [electronic resource] : 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.
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London : Printed by A.C. for Francis Eglesfield ..., 1673.
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Date
1673.
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English
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[20], 309, [3], 224, [170] p., 2 folded leaves of plates : ill.
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Publisher
London : Printed by A.C. for Francis Eglesfield ..., 1673.
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.
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England
Date Published
1673.
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The works of Edmund Gunter [electronic resource] : 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, a...
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General note
Added t.p. on p. [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 p. [197]: The cross-staff, in three books ... / by Edmund Gunter. London : Printed by A.C. for Francis Eglesfield ..., 1673.
Reproduction of original in Huntington Library....
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Wing G2241.
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Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/57.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 599:1)
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74VvwKQM80KZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvwKQM80KZ
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