The artist's vade mecum: or The most useful arts and sciences improv'd and made easie. : Containing 1. The curious art of dialing, in drawing and placing all sorts of sun-dials by a true or more exact rule than hitherto found out. 2. Geometry applied to the most profitable arts of surveying, measuring timber, or any solid bodies; gauging casks, brewers tuns, wine-vessels, &c. 3. Finding the length and circumference answering any arch, in degrees and decimal parts. 4. The area or segments of a circle, whose whole area is unity, to the ten thousandth of the diameter; with many other useful tables, ready stated. 5. A compleat body of astronomy, or a view of the caelestial globe; places of the sun, moon, and fixed stars, the names of the most noted stars, in what signs they are posited; their longitude and latitude, &c. The doctrine of the primum mobile, and the account of time rectified and freed from error; compared with the Julian and Gregorian calenders. : To which is added, A compleat body of geography; describing all the empires, kingdoms, and states in the known parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and America. The like never before made publick; illustrated with 14 copper-plates

The artist's vade mecum: or The most useful arts and sciences improv'd and made easie. : Containing 1. The curious art of dialing, in drawing and placing all sorts of sun-dials by a true or more exact rule than hitherto found out. 2. Geometry applied to the most profitable arts of surveying, measuring timber, or any solid bodies; gauging casks, brewers tuns, wine-vessels, &c. 3. Finding the length and circumference answering any arch, in degrees and decimal parts. 4. The area or segments of a circle, whose whole area is unity, to the ten thousandth of the diameter; with many other useful tables, ready stated. 5. A compleat body of astronomy, or a view of the caelestial globe; places of the sun, moon, and fixed stars, the names of the most noted stars, in what signs they are posited; their longitude and latitude, &c. The doctrine of the primum mobile, and the account of time rectified and freed from error; compared with the Julian and Gregorian calenders. : To which is added, A compleat body of geography; describing all the empires, kingdoms, and states in the known parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and America. The like never before made publick; illustrated with 14 copper-plates. / By Dr. Colton.

Author/creator	Colton, H., Dr.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	London: : Printed for Eben Tracy, at the Three Bibles on London-bridge, 1698.
Description	[29], 510, [16] p., 14 leaves of plates : ill.
Supplemental Content	https://search.proquest.com/docview/2240869837
Subject(s)	Geometry--Early works to 1800. Astronomy--Early works to 1800. Surveying--Early works to 1800. Geography--Early works to 1800. Sundials--Early works to 1800.

Portion of title	Most useful arts and sciences improv'd and made easie
Series	Early English books online. ^A888680
General note	Publisher's catalog: p. [13-16] at end.
General note	Imperfect: leaf P⁸ appears lacking; plates 12-14 lacking.
General note	Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library.
References	Wing (2nd ed.), C5422C
Reproduction note	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books; 1641-1700 ; 2892:1)
Stock number	CL0037000128 ProQuest Information and Learning, 789 E. Eisenhower Parkway, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-3218

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