The description and use of the trianguler-quadrant : being a particular and general instrument, useful at land or sea; both for observation and operation. More universally useful, portable and convenient, than any other yet discovered. With its uses in arithmetick. Geometry, superficial and solid. Astronomy. Dyalling, three wayes. Gaging. Navigation. In a method not before used. By John Brown, philomath.

  • Brown, John (Philomath)
Date:
1671
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Also known as

Description and use of the trianguler-quadrant. Part 1

Publication/Creation

London : printed by John Darby, for John Wingfield, and are to be sold at his house in Crutched-Fryers; and by John Brown at the Sphear and Sun Dial in the Minories; and by John Sellers at the Hermitage-stairs in Wapping, 1671.

Physical description

16 unnumbered pages, 483 pages, 13 unnumbered pages, 19 unnumbered plates (some folded) ; 8vo (15 cm)

Notes

A second part, "Horologiographia" was published in the same year.
Copy 1. Many plates loose. Lacks one plate? Bound with his Horologiographia. 1671.

References note

Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B5041
ESTC (RLIN), R15524

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