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Catalogue
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Triangles and other shapes (artwork)
Date: c.1979Reference: PP/RSI/B/1/1/12/4Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Purple, Blue and Black Mountains/Triangles (artwork)
Date: c1940s-1980sReference: PP/RSI/B/2/4/50Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Books
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The young trigonometer's new guide; containing The Elements of Plain and Spherical Trigonometry, deduced from the Principles of the Sphere in a Method entirely new; with the Analogies for solving all Cases, and Varieties of Triangles in every Way hitherto invented; with their Application to Practice. Together with The Principles of Fluxionary Trigonometry fully explained and exemplified in many useful Problems. also The Laws and Rules of the Stereographic Projection of the Sphere explained, and applied to the Delineation and Solution of Spherical Triangles, and the Construction of Maps and Dials. Illustrated by four copper-plates. By B. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1772?]- Books
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An introduction to plain trigonometry, with its application to heights and distances. Containing an Explanation of the three Varieties of right angled Triangles, and the four Cases of Oblique, together with a Variety of Questions interspersed by way of Exercise. By Richard Cockrel, Teacher of the Free School, at Lartington.
Cockrel, Richard.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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A new and complete treatise of spherical trigonometry: in which are contained the orthographic, analytical and logarithmical solutions of the several cases of spherical triangles, Whether right-angled or oblique; A Comprehensive Theory of the Fluxions of these Triangles; and A Variety of Curious and Interesting Particulars not to be met with in any other Treatise upon this Subject. Carefully translated from the French of Mr. Mauduit, by W. Crakelt.
Mauduit, Antoine-René, 1731-1815.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]