The vvorks 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: the uses whereof are illustrated in the practice of arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, navigation, dialling, and fortification. And some questions in navigation added by Mr. Henry Bond, teacher of mathematics in Ratcliff, near London. To which is added, the description and use of another sector and quadrant, both of them invented by Mr. Sam. Foster, late professor of astronomy in Gresham Colledge, London, furnished with more lines, and differing from those of Mr. Gunters both in form and manner of working. The sixth edition, diligently corrected, and divers necessary things and matters (pertinent thereunto) added, throughout the whole work, not before printed. By William Leybourn, philomath.
| Author/creator | Gunter, Edmund |
| Other author | Leybourn, William, 1626-1716. |
| Other author | Foster, Samuel, d. 1652. |
| Other author | Bond, Henry. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : printed for Francis Eglesfield at the Marigold in St. Paul's Churchyard, MDCLXXX. [1680] |
| Description | [8], 156 p., 2 folded leaves of plates : ill. |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2240873338 |
| Variant title | Works of Edmund Gunter |
| Variant title | Works of that famous mathematician Mr. Edmund Gunter |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | With an additional engraved title page: The works of that famous mathematician Mr. Edmund Gunter. |
| General note | With a half-title: The vvorks of Edmund Gunter. |
| General note | With a final advertisement leaf. |
| General note | Imperfect. Lacking "The sector altered", "The cross-staff", "The. |
| General note | Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library. |
| References | Wing (2nd ed.) G2242. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 1778:20) |
| Other title | Sector altered; and other scales added. |
| Stock number | CL0037000067 ProQuest Information and Learning. 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106 |
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