The works of Edmund Gunter: containing the description and use of his sector, cross-staff, bow, quadrant, and other instruments: with a canon of artificial sines and tangents, to a radius of 10,00000 [sic] parts, and logarithms from an unite to 10000, with the use thereo in arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, navigation, and dialling. Diligently corrected by Henry Bond, practitioner in the mathematicks, in the Bulwark neer the Tower. The fourth edition. To which is added, the description and use of another sector with more lines, differing from that of Mr. Gunter, both in form and manner of working. As also, of a quadrant fitted with new lines serving the former uses, and many other, more accurately. Both invented and written by Mr. Sam. Foster sometime professour of Astronomy in Gresham-Colledge London: now published from his manuscripts: the whole work examined, and in many places enlarged, by W.L

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  • The works of Edmund Gunter: containing the description and use of his sector, cross-staff, bow, quadrant, and other instruments: with a canon of artificial sines and tangents, to a radius of 10,00000 [sic] parts, and logarithms from an unite to 10000, with the use thereo in arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, navigation, and dialling. Diligently corrected by Henry Bond, practitioner in the mathematicks, in the Bulwark neer the Tower. The fourth edition. To which is added, the description and use of another sector with more lines, differing from that of Mr. Gunter, both in form and manner of working. As also, of a quadrant fitted with new lines serving the former uses, and many other, more accurately. Both invented and written by Mr. Sam. Foster sometime professour of Astronomy in Gresham-Colledge London: now published from his manuscripts: the whole work examined, and in many places enlarged, by W.L
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Imprint
London: printed by W. L[eybourne]. for Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold at the Marygold in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1662.
Added name
Bond, Henry.; Foster, Samuel, -1652.; Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.
Publication year
1662
ESTC No.
R13837
Grub Street ID
61908
Description
[8], 136, 139-152; [2], 36, [4]; 109, [3]; 166, 64, [168], 2, [2] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., diagrams, tables ; 4°.
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Printer's name from Wing CD

With an added engraved title page (plate)

"The sector altered, and other scales added", "The crosse-staffe" and "Canon triangulorum" each have separate dated title page and pagination; "The general use of the canon, and tables of logarithmes" and "Ten chiliades" each have caption title

With a final advertisement leaf

Text continuous despite pagination.