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Subject: Parallels (Geometry)

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Speidell, John. A geometricall extraction, or, A compendious collection of the chiefest and choisest problemes : selected out of the best and latest writers. Whereunto are added above thirty problemes of the authors own invention, being performed by a better and briefer way than hitherto hath been made known. By John Speidell, late practitioner in the mathematicks, and professor thereof in London

Creator
Speidell, John, active 1600-1634
Date
1657
Media Format
Printed text
Location
London England
Reference ID
191674
Caption
London : Printed by T.M. for Thomas Davies, and are to be sold at his shop in St. Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the Bible, neer the little north doore, 1657 The second edition corrected and enlarged
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Digges, Leonard. A boke named Tectonicon briefelye shewynge the exacte measurynge, and speady reckenynge all maner lande, squared tymber, stone, steaples, pyllers, globes. [et]c. Further, declarynge the perfecte makynge and large vse of the carpenters ruler, conteynynge a quadrant geometricall: comprehendynge also the rare vse of the squire. And in thende a little treatise adioyned, openinge the composition and appliancie of an instrument called the profitable staffe. With other thinges pleasant & necessary, most conducible for surueyers, landmeters, joyners, carpe[n]ters, and masons. Published by Leonarde Digges gentleman, in the yere of our Lorde. 1556

Creator
Digges, Leonard, -1571?
Date
[1556?]
Media Format
Printed text
Location
London England
Reference ID
FILM Acc. 626; For access, follow the Linked Resources hyperlink
Caption
Early English books, 1475-1640
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Babington, John. Pyrotechnia or, A discourse of artificiall fire-works in which the true grounds of that art are plainly and perspicuously laid downe: together with sundry such motions, both straight and circular, performed by the helpe of fire, as are not to be found in any other discourse of this kind, extant in any language. VVhereunto is annexed a short treatise of geometrie, contayning certaine definitions and problemes, for the mensuration of superficies and sollids, with tables for the square root to 25000, and the cubick root to 10000 latus, wherein all roots under those numbers are extracted onely by ocular inspection. VVritten by Iohn Babington gunner, and student in the mathematicks

Creator
Babington, John
Date
MDCXXXV. [1635]
Media Format
Printed text
Location
London England
Reference ID
FILM Acc. 626; For access, follow the Linked Resources hyperlink
Caption
Early English books, 1475-1640
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Digges, Leonard. A geometrical practise, named Pantometria diuided into three bookes, longimetra, planimetra, and stereometria, containing rules manifolde for mensuration of all lines, superficies and solides: with sundry straunge conclusions both by instrument and without, and also by perspectiue glasses, to set forth the true description or exact plat of an whole region: framed by Leonard Digges gentleman, lately finished by Thomas Digges his sonne. Who hathe also thereunto adioyned a mathematicall treatise of the fiue regulare Platonicall bodies, and their Metamorphosis or transformation into fiue other equilater vniforme solides Geometricall, of his owne inuention, hitherto not mentioned of by any geometricians

Creator
Digges, Leonard, -1571?
Date
Anno. 1571
Media Format
Printed text
Location
London England
Reference ID
FILM Acc. 626; For access, follow the Linked Resources hyperlink
Caption
Early English books, 1475-1640
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