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
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3067778
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.. Pencil doodles on endpaper. Provenance: eighteenth-century armorial bookplate upside down on lower pastedown, lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. William Windham (1717-1761)]. Over this, pencil note: End of volume. Binding: late seventeenth-century full calf, torn, double blind fillets; sewn onto five raised bands, red-sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
William Leybourn (1626-1716)