Mathesis juvenilis: or A course of mathematicks for young students, and such as have not arriv'd to a great perfection in those studies. Containing plain and easie treatises, by way of question and answer in the following sciences, viz. Arithmetick. Algebra. Geometry. Trigonometry. Navigation. Surveying. Fortification. Architecture. Staticks. Mechanicks. Opticks. Catoptricks. Dioptricks. Astronomy. and the use of the globes. Chronology. Dialling, &c. Made English from the Latin of Jo. Christopher Sturmius, ... By George Vaux, M.D. In three volumes. ...
Johann Christophorus Sturm (1635-1703)
Category
Books
Date
1708 - 1709
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3230801
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. ([14], 400, 385-386; 488; 453 [i.e. 450] p., [109] leaves of plates.) : ill., plans ; 8vo. Front free endpaper in vol. 1 partially torn off. Provenance: manuscript inscriptions on front fly-leaf in each vol.: [1] "J: Talbot é Coll: Oriel" [i.e. John Talbot (1717?-1778), at Oriel College, Oxford]; and [2] "Davenport Talbot" [probably William Davenport-Talbot (1764-1800)]. Pencilled mathematical sums on vol. 1 rear pastedown. Manuscript zodiac signs and alchemical symbols (seven planetary metals) in ink on vol. 2 rear endpaper. Binding: eighteenth-century full blind-panelled sprinkled calf; sewn on four supports; double blind fillet border; double blind fillet inner panel, with blind cornerpiece stamps; blind roll pattern on board edges; double blind fillets on either side of four raised bands on spines; gilt title and vol. number 'Sturmius Mathemat. Vol. I[-III]' on gold-tooled brown leather label on spines; red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Johann Christophorus Sturm (1635-1703), author George Vaux, editor