A mathematical compendium; or, useful practices in arithmetick, geometry, and astronomy, geography and navigation, embattelling, and quartering of armies, fortification and gunnery, gauging and dyalling, etc. Explaining the logarithms, with new indices; Nepair's rods or bones; making of movements, and the application of pendulums; with the projections of the sphere for an universal dyal, &c / [Sir Jonas Moore].

  • Moore, Jonas, Sir, 1617-1679.
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1705
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A mathematical compendium; or, useful practices in arithmetick, geometry, and astronomy, geography and navigation, embattelling, and quartering of armies, fortification and gunnery, gauging and dyalling, etc. Explaining the logarithms, with new indices; Nepair's rods or bones; making of movements, and the application of pendulums; with the projections of the sphere for an universal dyal, &c / [Sir Jonas Moore]. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed for J. Philips, etc., 1705.

Physical description

2 unnumbered leaves, 120 pages, 77 unnumbered leaves, diagrams on folded plates : tables (some mounted, 1 folded) ; (12mo)

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4th ed.

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ESTC T110920

Notes

The first edition "collected out of the notes and papers of Sir Jonas Moore by Nicholas Stephenson" was published in 1674. cf. Dict. Nat. Biog
"Brigg's logarithms" (caption title; t.p. lacking?) [66] p
"A table of artificial sines and tangents, for every degree and minute of the quadrant, fitted to the size of the logarithms" (half-title) [112] p. at end.

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