The description and use of a portable instrument, vlugarly [sic] known by the name of Gunters quadrant. By which is perform'd, most propositions in astronomy, as the altitude, azimuth, right ascention, and declination of the sun, &c. Also his rising, and setting and amplitude, together with the hour of the day or night, and other conclusions exemplified at large. To which is added the use of Nepiars Bones in multiplication, division, and extraction of roots: also the nocturnal. The ring dial, and Gunters-line, in many necessary and delightful conclusions, fitted to the understanding of the meanest capacity. collected and digested into this portable volumn, for the use of young practitioners. By a true lover of the mathematicks
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- The description and use of a portable instrument, vlugarly [sic] known by the name of Gunters quadrant. By which is perform'd, most propositions in astronomy, as the altitude, azimuth, right ascention, and declination of the sun, &c. Also his rising, and setting and amplitude, together with the hour of the day or night, and other conclusions exemplified at large. To which is added the use of Nepiars Bones in multiplication, division, and extraction of roots: also the nocturnal. The ring dial, and Gunters-line, in many necessary and delightful conclusions, fitted to the understanding of the meanest capacity. collected and digested into this portable volumn, for the use of young practitioners. By a true lover of the mathematicks
- Description and use of a portable instrument, vlugarly known by the name of Gunters quadrant; Description and use of a portable instrument, vulgarly known by the name of Gunters quadrant
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London: printed by T[homas]. B[raddyll]. for H[annah]. Sawbridge, at the Bible on Ludgate-Hill, 1685.
- Publication year
- 1685
- ESTC No.
- R20313
- Grub Street ID
- 80268
- Description
- [2], 70 p., [1] plate : diagram ; 12°.
- Note
- A true lover of the mathematicks = Edmund Gunter
Printers' names from Wing CD.