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