Cursus mathematicus. . Mathematical sciences, in nine books. Comprehending arithmetick, vulgar, decimal, instrumental, algebraical. Geometry, plain, solid. Cosmography, colestial, terrestrial. Astronomy, theorical, practical. Navigation, plain, spherical. Trigonometry, rectilinear, circular. With the description, construction, and use of geometrical and nautical instruments: and the doctrine of triangles applied to practice in mensurations of all kinds: as in longimetria, planometria, military architecture, or taking of heights, distances, &c. surveying of land, woods, roads, &c. fortification. And in navigation, dialling, &c. All which are disposed in such method and order as they ought to be read and practised, by such as would attain to a competent proficiency in them by their own industry. By William Leybourn, philomath.
William Leybourn (1626-1716)
Category
Books
Date
1690
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Springhill, County Londonderry
NT 3067777
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],360,[2],355-440 p., 441-526 leaves, [2],547-652 p., 653-694, [1],698-724 leaves, [2],731-904, [92] p., [44] leaves of plates . diagrams, ill.. tables . fol.. Ms. inscription on front pastedown: Bought this book from Jams Tuller Meath Street Dublin 1st March 1733 price Đ9.3 Edwd Shaw.. Binding: Seventeenth-century full panelled calf; sewn onto six raised supports; remains of paper manuscript spine label.
Makers and roles
William Leybourn (1626-1716)