Nine geometricall exercises, for young sea-men : and others that are studious in mathematicall practices: containing IX particular treatises, whose contents follow in the next pages. All which exercises are geometrically performed, by a line of chords and equal parts, by waies not usually known or practised. Unto which the analogies or proportions are added, whereby they may be applied to the chiliads of logarithms, and canons of artificiall sines and tangents. By William Leybourn, philomath.
1669
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Nine geometricall exercises, for young sea-men : and others that are studious in mathematicall practices: containing IX particular treatises, whose contents follow in the next pages. All which exercises are geometrically performed, by a line of chords and equal parts, by waies not usually known or practised. Unto which the analogies or proportions are added, whereby they may be applied to the chiliads of logarithms, and canons of artificiall sines and tangents. By William Leybourn, philomath.
Created/published
London : Printed by J. Flesher, for W. Hayes, and are to be sold at his House at the Cross-daggers in Moor-fields near to the Pope's-head Tavern, where you may have all sorts of mathematicall instruments, 1669.
Description
[12], 192 p., [3] plates : ill., port. ; (4to)
Associated name
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716, author.
Gaywood, Richard, active 1650-1680, printmaker.
Gaywood, Richard, active 1650-1680, printmaker.
Note
Frontispiece portrait of author signed: "R Gaywood fecit".
Signatures: A⁴ a² B-2B⁴.
Signatures: A⁴ a² B-2B⁴.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2000. Decade of Collecting (catalog entry 53)
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), L1924
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R179685
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R179685
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
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235- 140q
Folger-specific note
Provenance: inscription on a2v: "alexandre hamilton"; armorial bookplate of Rolle (motto "nec rege nec populo sed utroque"); book-label of Harrison D. Horblit; purchased by Folger from H.P. Kraus, 1 April 1993