The works of Edmund Gunter : containing the description and use of the sector, cross-staff, bow, 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 mathematics 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.
| Author/creator | Gunter, Edmund |
| Other author | Leybourn, William, 1626-1716. |
| Other author | Bond, Henry. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | 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. |
| Publication Info | London : Printed by A.C. for Francis Eglesfield ..., 1673. |
| Description | [20], 309, [3], 224, [170] p., 2 folded leaves of plates : ill. |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2240955120 |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Works. 1673 |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | Added t.p. on p. [157]: The sector altered, and other scales added ... / invented and written by Mr. Samuel Foster ... ; and now published by G.L. London : Printed by Andrew Clark, 1673. |
| General note | Added t.p. on p. [197]: The cross-staff, in three books ... / by Edmund Gunter. London : Printed by A.C. for Francis Eglesfield ..., 1673. |
| General note | Added t.p. on p. [225]: Canon triangulorum, or, A table of artificial sines and tangents ... / by Edmund Gunter ... London : Printed by Andrew Clark, for Francis Eglesfield ..., 1672. |
| General note | Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. |
| References | Wing G2241 |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 599:1) |
| Stock number | CL0037000017 ProQuest Information and Learning. 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |