The vvorks of Edmund Gunter: containing the description and use of the sector, cross-staff, bovv, quadrant, and other instruments. With a canon of artificial sines and tangents to a radius of 10.00000 parts, and the logarithms from an unite to 10000: the uses whereof are illustrated in the practice of arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, navigation, dialling, and fortification. And some questions in navigation added by Mr. Henry Bond, teacher of mathematicks in Ratcliff, near London. To which is added, the description and use of another sector and quadrant, both of them invented by Mr. Sam. Foster, late professor of astronomy in Gresham Colledge, London, furnished with more lines, and differing from those of Mr. Gunters both in form and manner of working. The fifth edition, diligently corrected, and divers necessary things and matters (pertinent thereunto) added, throughout the whole work, not before printed. By William Leybourn, philomath

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  • The vvorks of Edmund Gunter: containing the description and use of the sector, cross-staff, bovv, quadrant, and other instruments. With a canon of artificial sines and tangents to a radius of 10.00000 parts, and the logarithms from an unite to 10000: the uses whereof are illustrated in the practice of arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, navigation, dialling, and fortification. And some questions in navigation added by Mr. Henry Bond, teacher of mathematicks in Ratcliff, near London. To which is added, the description and use of another sector and quadrant, both of them invented by Mr. Sam. Foster, late professor of astronomy in Gresham Colledge, London, furnished with more lines, and differing from those of Mr. Gunters both in form and manner of working. The fifth edition, diligently corrected, and divers necessary things and matters (pertinent thereunto) added, throughout the whole work, not before printed. By William Leybourn, philomath
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Imprint
London: printed by A. C[larke]. for Francis Eglesfield at the Marigold in St. Pauls Church-yard, MDCLXXIII. [1673]
Added name
Bond, Henry.; Foster, Samuel, -1652. Sector altered; and other scales added.; Leybourn, William, 1626-1716, ed.
Publication year
1673
ESTC No.
R14615
Grub Street ID
62628
Description
[24], 248, 245-309, [3], 224, [174] p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., diagrams, tables ; 4°.
Note
With an additional letterpress title page with engraved border and imprint on leaf A2r

With a half-title

The words "arithmetick, geometry," are gathered by a right brace, the words "dialling, and fortification." by a left brace, and the words "astronomy, navigation," are enclosed within brackets on the title page

Printer's name from Wing CD

"The sector altered; and other scales added .. invented and written by Mr. Samuel Foster" and "The cross-staff" each have separate dated title pages; pagination and register are continuous. "The third book of the use of the lines of numbers, sines and tangents, for the drawin of hour-lines on all sorts of planes" has caption title and begins new pagination and register. "Canon triangulorum" has a separate title page, dated 1672, and begins the [172] p. unpaginated sequence

With a final advertisement leaf

Signatures: A]4] a-b]4] B-2R]4] 2S]2] 3A-4E]4] 5A-5X]4] 5Y]2.