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Author Gunter, Edmund, 1581-1626.
Uniform Title Works. 1662
Title 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 [sic] to 10000 with the use thereof in arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, mathematicks in the Bulwark neer the Tower. / diligently corrected by Henry Bond practitioner in the mathematicks in the Bulwark neer the Tower.
Publication Info London : Printed by W.L. for Francis Eglesfield ..., 1662.
Edition 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 ..., now published from his manuscripts : the whole work examined, and in many places enlarged, by W.L.



Descript 4 pts. ([10], 152; [2], 36, [2]; [2], 109, [2]; 166, 64, [95], [73], 2, [1] p., 1 folded leaf of plates) : ill.
Edition 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 ..., now published from his manuscripts : the whole work examined, and in many places enlarged, by W.L.
Note Added illustrated t.p.
Advertisement: p. [1]-[3] at end.
Added t.p. and separate paging ([2], 36, [2] p.): The sector altered, and other scales added.
Added t.p. and separate paging ([2], 109, [2] p.): The crosse-staffe.
Caption title and separate paging (64 p.): The general use of the canon, and tables of logarithmes.
Added t.p. and unpaged ([95] p.): Canon triangulorum, or, Table of artificial sines and tangents.
Caption title and unpaged ([73] p.): Ten chiliades, or, The logarithms of absolute numbers from an unite to ten thousand.
Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.
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Author Gunter, Edmund, 1581-1626.
Series Early English books online.
Subject Mathematical instruments -- Early works to 1800.
Sundials.
Logarithms.
Navigation -- Early works to 1800.
Alt author Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.
Foster, Samuel, -1652.
Bond, Henry.
Descript 4 pts. ([10], 152; [2], 36, [2]; [2], 109, [2]; 166, 64, [95], [73], 2, [1] p., 1 folded leaf of plates) : ill.
Edition 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 ..., now published from his manuscripts : the whole work examined, and in many places enlarged, by W.L.
Note Added illustrated t.p.
Advertisement: p. [1]-[3] at end.
Added t.p. and separate paging ([2], 36, [2] p.): The sector altered, and other scales added.
Added t.p. and separate paging ([2], 109, [2] p.): The crosse-staffe.
Caption title and separate paging (64 p.): The general use of the canon, and tables of logarithmes.
Added t.p. and unpaged ([95] p.): Canon triangulorum, or, Table of artificial sines and tangents.
Caption title and unpaged ([73] p.): Ten chiliades, or, The logarithms of absolute numbers from an unite to ten thousand.
Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.
Author Gunter, Edmund, 1581-1626.
Series Early English books online.
Subject Mathematical instruments -- Early works to 1800.
Sundials.
Logarithms.
Navigation -- Early works to 1800.
Alt author Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.
Foster, Samuel, -1652.
Bond, Henry.

Subject Mathematical instruments -- Early works to 1800.
Sundials.
Logarithms.
Navigation -- Early works to 1800.
Descript 4 pts. ([10], 152; [2], 36, [2]; [2], 109, [2]; 166, 64, [95], [73], 2, [1] p., 1 folded leaf of plates) : ill.
Note Added illustrated t.p.
Advertisement: p. [1]-[3] at end.
Added t.p. and separate paging ([2], 36, [2] p.): The sector altered, and other scales added.
Added t.p. and separate paging ([2], 109, [2] p.): The crosse-staffe.
Caption title and separate paging (64 p.): The general use of the canon, and tables of logarithmes.
Added t.p. and unpaged ([95] p.): Canon triangulorum, or, Table of artificial sines and tangents.
Caption title and unpaged ([73] p.): Ten chiliades, or, The logarithms of absolute numbers from an unite to ten thousand.
Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.
Alt author Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.
Foster, Samuel, -1652.
Bond, Henry.

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