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
Description
Note:Translation of Leurechon's Recreation mathematique.
Henry Van Etten is pseud. of Jean Leurechon.
Added engraved title page, poem on the frontispiece (added title page and book) precede primary title page.
"The description and use of the double horizontal dyal" has separate title page and pagination.
This item can be found at reels 1023:13 and 1465:30.
Wing number O585 at reel position 1023:13 cancelled in Wing (2nd edition).
Reproduction of originals in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library and Huntington Library.
Electronic resource.
Call Number:Q157 .L48 1674
References:
Wing L1791
Reproduction Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) s1999 miun s