The vvorks of Edmund Gunter: containing the description and use of the sector, cross-staff, bovv, 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 mathematicks 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.
Edmund Gunter (1581-1626)
Category
Books
Date
1673
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3188005
Summary
Bibliographic description
[24], 248, 245-309, [3], 224, [172] p., [3] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., diagrams, tables ; 4to. Running number: 4240. Wormed from front pastedown to leaf (b)4 and from Aaaaa1 to rear pastedown. Variant: additional letterpress title page A2r does not have engraved border. Provenance: manuscript former shelfmark: "D.6.19". Binding: seventeenth-century mottled calf; double blind fillet border, with quarter double blind fillet and roll pattern; gilt roll pattern on board edges; blind fillets on spine. Marbled edges.
Makers and roles
Edmund Gunter (1581-1626) William Leybourn (1626-1716) Edmund Gunter (1581-1626) Henry Bond Samuel Foster (d.1652) Henry Bond