Mathematical recreations: or, a collection of many problems extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers: as, secrets and experiments in arithmetick, geometry, cosmography, horologiography ... &c. ... / Written first in Greek and Latin, lately compil'd in French by Henry van Etten [pseud.], and now in English ... Whereunto is added the description and use of the double horizontal dyal, and the general horological ring: invented and written by William Oughtred.

  • Leurechon, Jean, 1591-1670.
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1674
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Mathematical recreations: or, a collection of many problems extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers: as, secrets and experiments in arithmetick, geometry, cosmography, horologiography ... &c. ... / Written first in Greek and Latin, lately compil'd in French by Henry van Etten [pseud.], and now in English ... Whereunto is added the description and use of the double horizontal dyal, and the general horological ring: invented and written by William Oughtred. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed for William Leake and John Leake, 1674.

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40 unnumbered pages, 282 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 19 pages : add. engr. t.page, engr. illustrations & diagrams ; (8vo)

Notes

Title within a line border
Added illustrated t.-p., engraved
"The description and use of the double horizontal dyal," 19 p. at end, has special t.-p
Copy 1 Note: 1633 ed. (WHML Cat. i. no. 3762)

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Wing L1791 (or O585)
ESTC R30500
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), L1791

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