Mathematical recreations, or, A collection of many problems extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers as secrets and experiments : in arithmetick, geometry, cosmography, horologiography, astronomy, navigation, musick, opticks, architecture, statick, mechanicks, chymistry, water-works, fire-works & c. : not vulgarly manifest till now / written first in Greek and Latin ; lately compil'd in French by Henry Van Etten and now in English ; with the examinations and augmentations of divers modern mathematicians ; whereunto is added The description and use of the double horizontal dyal and the general horological ring / invented and written by William Oughtred.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Récréation mathématique. English.
Language:English
Language of the Original:
French
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Latin
Published: London : Printed for William Leake and John Leake ..., 1674.
Series:Early English books online.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (34 unnumbered pages, 282, 19 pages) : illustrations
Format: Electronic eBook

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