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
EditionThe 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 InfoLondon : Printed by A.C. for Francis Eglesfield ..., 1673.
Description[20], 309, [3], 224, [170] p., 2 folded leaves of plates : ill.
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Uniform titleWorks. 1673
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
General noteAdded 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 noteAdded t.p. on p. [197]: The cross-staff, in three books ... / by Edmund Gunter. London : Printed by A.C. for Francis Eglesfield ..., 1673.
General noteAdded 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 noteReproduction of original in Huntington Library.
References Wing G2241
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 599:1)
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