Record The works of Edmund Gunter: containing the description and use of the sector, cross-staff, bow, quadrant, and other instruments. With a canon of artificial sines and tangents to a radius of 10.00000 parts, and the logarithms from an unite to 10000 ... and some questions in navigation added by Mr. Henry Bond. To which is added, the description and use of another sector and quadrant, both of them in... | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution

The works of Edmund Gunter: containing the description and use of the sector, cross-staff, bow, quadrant, and other instruments. With a canon of artificial sines and tangents to a radius of 10.00000 parts, and the logarithms from an unite to 10000 ... and some questions in navigation added by Mr. Henry Bond. To which is added, the description and use of another sector and quadrant, both of them in...

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Author:: Gunter, Edmund 1581-1626 Search this; Leybourn, William 1626-1716 Search this; Foster, Samuel -1652 Search this; Bond, Henry active 17th century Search this

Physical description:: [8], 309, [3], 224, [172] p., [3] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)

Type:: Early works to 1800

Date:: 1673

Notes:: "The sector altered, by S. Foster", "The cross-staff", and "The canon triangulorum" have special title-pages dated respectively 1673, 1673, 1672.; Signatures: A-2R⁴, 2S², 3A-4E⁴, 5A-5X⁴, 5Y² (5Y² inserted between 2S¹⁻²).

Topic:: Mathematical instruments Search this; Logarithms Search this; Sundials Search this; Navigation Search this

Call number:: QA33 G97w 1673; QA33G97w 1673

Data Source:: Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:siris_sil_120878