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 mathematicks 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 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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Author
Contributions
- Leybourn, William, 1626-1716 - Contributor
- Foster, Samuel, -1652 - Contributor
- Bond, Henry - Contributor
- Bennett, James - Contributor
- Walts, P. - Contributor
Publication
Printed by A. C.[larke]. for Francis Eglesfield, at the Marigold in St. Paul's Church-yard, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
77,250 words, Guess
Page Count
309 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveworksofedmundgun00gunt
- Library of Congress Control Number04005350
- OCLC Control Number507855385
- Open LibraryOL26462609M
Classifications
- LCCQA33 .G98 1673
- LCCQA33 .G98 1973
Alternate Titles
- VVorks of Edmund Gunter.
- Works of that famous mathematician, Mr. Edmund Gunter.
- Cross-staff.
- Canon triangulorum - or, A table of artificial sines and tangents.
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