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Mathematical institutions. In three parts. I. Clavis II. Janua III. Ancilla The Key, Gate, Hand-maid, to the mathematical sciences. Wherein, the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles, is succinctly handled, geometrically demonstrated, arithmetically, geometrically, instrumentally performed; and practically apply'd to geometry, cosmography, geography, astronomy, sciographia, navigation, and theories of the planets. By Will. Leybourn, Philom.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.Date: MDCCIV. [1704]- Books
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Mathematical institutions. In three parts. I. Clavis II. Janua III. Ancilla The Key, Gate, Hand-maid, to the mathematical sciences. Wherein, the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles, is succinctly handled, geometrically demonstrated, arithmetically, geometrically, instrumentally performed; and practically apply'd to geometry, cosmography, geography, astronomy, sciographia, navigation, and theories of the planets. By Will. Leybourn, Philom.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.Date: MDCCIV. [1704]- Books
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A new and general introduction to practical astronomy: with its application to geography, in describing the Earth. Topography and hydrography, in describing Places on Land and at Sea. Horometry, or the Measurement of Time. The Trial of Time-Keepers. The Obliquity of the Ecliptic. The Magnetic Variation, and Variation Charts of the Ocean. Refraction and Parallax. The Horizons of the Spheroidal Earth. Surveying the Coasts, and correcting the Charts. Observations of Lunar Eclipses, and Jupiter's Satellites. The Construction of temporary, and other Instruments; with tables of the sun and fixed stars, and a variety of interesting copper plates. The whole being designed, As a Course of plain and easy Instructions and Operations, preparatory to the discovery of the longitude. By Samuel Dunn, Teacher of the Mathematical and Philosophical Sciences, London.
Dunn, Samuel, -1794.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
A commentary upon Bīrūnī's Kitāb taḥdīd al-amākin : an 11th century treatise on mathematical geography / by E.S. Kennedy.
Kennedy, E. S. (Edward Stewart), 1912-2009.Date: 1973- Books
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A new treatise of the construction and use of the sector. Containing, the solutions of the principal problems by that admirable instrument in the chief branches of mathematicks, viz. Arithmetick, Mensuration, Plain Trigonometry, Spherick Geometry, Projection of the Sphere Geography, Astronomy, Dialling, &c. Illustrated with variety of necessary observations, and pleasant Conclusions: Containing several Applications intirely New. Being a work of the late Mr. Samuel Cunn's, Teacher of Mathematicks, &c. Now carefully revised by Edmund Stone.
Cunn, Mr. (Samuel).Date: M.DCC.XXIX. [1729]