Mathematical recreations: or, a collection of many problems extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers: as, secrets and experiments in arithmetick, geometry, cosmography, horologiography ... &c. ... / Written first in Greek and Latin, lately compil'd in French by Henry van Etten [pseud.], and now in English ... Whereunto is added the description and use of the double horizontal dyal, and the general horological ring: invented and written by William Oughtred.

  • Leurechon, Jean, 1591-1670.
Date:
1674
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Mathematical recreations: or, a collection of many problems extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers: as, secrets and experiments in arithmetick, geometry, cosmography, horologiography ... &c. ... / Written first in Greek and Latin, lately compil'd in French by Henry van Etten [pseud.], and now in English ... Whereunto is added the description and use of the double horizontal dyal, and the general horological ring: invented and written by William Oughtred. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mathematical Problems and Con- clufions as may delight thee, which kind of Learning doth excellently a- dorn a man ; feeing the Ufefulne|s thereof, and the Manly Accomplifb- ments it doth produce, is profitable and delightful for all forts of People, who may furnifb and adorn themfelves with abundance of matter in that kind, to help them by way of ufe and difcourfe. And to this we have alfo added our Pyrotechny, knowing that Beafts bave for their Objekt onely-the furface of the Earth, but boping that by Spirit, which followeth the motion ‘of Fire, will abandon the lower Ele- ‘ments, and caufe thee to lift up thine Eyes to foar in an bigher Contempla- - À tion, baving fo glittering a Canopy to : bebold, and thefe pleafant and recrea- | tive Fires afcending may caufe thy af- | fections alfo to afcend. Ibe Whole tes whereof