Rare Books

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

Image not available

Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1671.
Call number: 352321 v.1
Creator: Brown, John(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 8vo
Find out more: View in the Library catalog(Opens in new tab)

You might also be interested in

Image not available
Horologiographia: or, The art of dyalling, : being the second book of the use of the trianguler-quadrant. Shewing the natural, artificial, and instrumental way, of making of sun-dials, on any flat superficies: with plain and easie directions, to discover their nature and affections, by the horizontal projection. With the way of drawing the usual ornaments on any plain: also, a familiar easie way to draw those lines on the ceiling of a room, by the trianguler quadrant. Also, the use of the same instrument in navigation; both for observation, and operation. Performing the use of several sea-instruments still in use
Rare Books
352321 v.2
Image not available
A pocket book containing severall choice collections : in arithmetick astronomy. Geometry. Surveying. Dialling. Navigation astrology. Geography. Measuring. Gageing
Rare Books
350437
Image not available
The sector on a quadrant, or A treatise containing the description and use of four several quadrants; : two small ones and two great ones, each rendred many wayes, both general and particular. Each of them accomodated for dyalling; for the resolving of all proportions instrumentally; and for the ready finding the hour and azimuth universally in the equal limbe. Of great use to seamen and practitioners in the mathematicks. Written by John Collins accountant philomath. Also An appendix touching reflected dyalling from a glass placed at any reclination
Rare Books
437087
Image not available
The description and use of the carpenters-rule: : together with the use of the line of numbers commonly called Gunters-line. Applyed to the measuring of all superficies and solids, as board, glass, plaistering, wainscoat, tyling, paving, flooring, &c. timber, stone, square or round, gauging of vessels, &c. Also military orders, simple and compound interest, and tables of reduction, with the way of working by arithmatick, in most of them. Together with the use of the glasiers and Mr. White's sliding-rules. Rendred plain and easie for ordinary capacities
Rare Books
433676
Image not available
A mathematical compendium; or, Useful practices in arithmetick, : geometry, and astronomy, geography and navigation, embattelling, and quartering of armies, fortification and gunnery, gauging and dyalling. Explaining the logarithms, with new indices; Nepair's rods or bones; making of movements, and the application of pendulums; with the projection of the sphere for an universal dyal, &c
Rare Books
288802
Image not available
A mathematical compendium; or, Useful practices in arithmetick, geometry, and astronomy, geography and navigation, embattelling, and quartering of armies, fortification and gunnery, gauging and dyalling. : Explaining the logarithms, with new indices; Nepair's rods or bones; making of movements, and the application of pendulums; with the projection of the sphere for an universal dyal, &c
Rare Books
314402

You might also be interested in

A pocket book containing severall choice collections : in arithmetick astronomy. Geometry. Surveying. Dialling. Navigation astrology. Geography. Measuring. Gageing