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The works of Edmund Gunter: : containing the description and use of his sector, cross-staff, bow, quadrant, and other instruments: with a canon of artificial sines and tangents, to a radius of 10,00000 [sic] parts, and logarithms from an unite to 10000, with the use thereof in arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, navigation, and dialling. Diligently corrected by Henry Bond, practitioner in the mathematicks, in the Bulwark neer the Tower. The fourth edition. To which is added, the description and use of another sector with more lines, differing from that of Mr. Gunter, both in form and manner of working. As also, of a quadrant fitted with new lines serving the former uses, and many other, more accurately. Both invented and written by Mr. Sam. Foster sometime professour of Astronomy in Gresham-Colledge London: now published from his manuscripts: the whole work examined, and in many places enlarged, by W.L

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