The triangular quadrant, or, The quadrant on a sector : being a general instrument for land or sea observations : performing all the uses of the ordinary sea instruments, as Davis quadrant, forestaff, crosstaff, bow, with more ease, profitableness, and conveniency, and as much exactness as any or all of them : moreover, it may be made a particular and a general quadrant for all latitudes, and have the sector lines also : to which is added a rectifying table to find the suns true declination to a minute or two, any day or hour of the 4 years : whereby to find the latitude of a place by meridian, or any two other altitudes of the sun or stars / first thus contrived and made by John Brown.
| Author/creator | Brown, John |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | [London] : To be sold at [his, i.e. Brown's] house, or at Hen. Sutton's ..., 1662. |
| Description | [2], 24, [1] p. : ill. |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2240852786 |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | Added illustrated t.p. |
| General note | Place of publication suggested by Wing. |
| General note | Reproduction of original in the British Library. |
| References | Wing B5043 |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1545:11) |
| Other title | Triangular quadrant. |
| Other title | Quadrant on a sector. |
| Stock number | CL0037000055 ProQuest Information and Learning. 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106 |
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