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Operations of the geometric and military compass, 1606 / Galileo Galilei ; translated, with an introduction, by Stillman Drake.
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.Date: 1978
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Mathematicks made plain, In the Solution of Variety Of Useful Propositions in Arithmetick. Interest, Simple and Compound. Geometry. Surveying. Gauging. Measuring all Artificers Works. Trigonometry, Plain and Spherical. Astronomy. Geography. Navigation. Dialling. Chronology. Dioptricks. Staticks. Gunnery. Military Fortification. Civil and Naval Architecture. Mechanick Powers. Automaticks, or Clock-Work, &c. All Perform'd by that Excellent Line of Numbers, commonly call'd Gunter's-Line. Being A necessary Companion for Gentlemen, Military Officers, Engineers, Architects, Seamen, Surveyors, Usurers, Shopkeepers of all sorts; Artificers, as Masons, Bricklayers, Carpenters, Shipwrights, Watch-Makers, Glaziers, Painters, Plaisterers, &c. By Richard Neve, Philomath. Approv'd of by the Royal Society.
Neve, Richard.Date: 1708
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The description and use of a case of mathematical instruments; particularly of all the lines contained on the plain scale, the sector, the gunter, and the proportional compasses. With a practical application exemplified in many useful Cases of Geometry, and Plain and Spherical Trigonometry. The whole illustrated by copper-plate figures By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1771]
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The description, nature, and general use of the sector and plain-scale, Briefly and Painly laid down. As also a short account of the uses of the lines of numbers, artificial sines, and tangents.
Stone, Edmund, -1768.Date: 1746
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The description and use of a complete sett or case of pocket-instruments: containing the construction of the several lines laid down on the plain-scale, and sector; with their application, in variety of Mathematical Problems. By William Webster.
Webster, William, approximately 1684-1744.Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]

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Mathematical instruments

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Operations of the geometric and military compass, 1606 / Galileo Galilei ; translated, with an introduction, by Stillman Drake.

The description, nature, and general use of the sector and plain-scale, Briefly and Painly laid down. As also a short account of the uses of the lines of numbers, artificial sines, and tangents.

The description and use of a complete sett or case of pocket-instruments: containing the construction of the several lines laid down on the plain-scale, and sector; with their application, in variety of Mathematical Problems. By William Webster.