A mathematical compendium; or, Useful practices in arithmetick, geometry, and astronomy, geography and navigation, embattelling, and quartering of armies, fortification and gunnery, gauging and dyalling. Explaining the logarithms, with new indices; Nepair's rods or bones making of movements, and the application of pendulums; with the projection of the sphere for an universal dyal, &c. By Sir Jonas Moore Knight, late Surveyor General of His Majesties ordinance

All titles

• A mathematical compendium; or, Useful practices in arithmetick, geometry, and astronomy, geography and navigation, embattelling, and quartering of armies, fortification and gunnery, gauging and dyalling. Explaining the logarithms, with new indices; Nepair's rods or bones making of movements, and the application of pendulums; with the projection of the sphere for an universal dyal, &c. By Sir Jonas Moore Knight, late Surveyor General of His Majesties ordinance
• Brigg's logarithms (]2B1r); Table of logarithms, from unity to 10000, by which, and the table of proportional parts annexed, the logarithms of all numbers under 100000 may easily be supplied (]2B1r, vertical caption title); Table of artificial sines and tangents, for every degree and minute of the quadrant, fitted to the size of the logarithms (]2D3v); Here followeth a table of parts proportional, for the finding the logorithms of all numbers, betwixt 10000 and 100000 (]2D10r)

People / Organizations

• Jonas Moore (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for Richard Mount at the Postern on Tower-Hill, 1693. The third edition, with many large additions.; ..

Added name

Briggs, Henry, 1561-1630.; Harford, Robert, active 1677-1680.

Publication year

1693

ESTC No.

R202920

Grub Street ID

80096

Description

[24], 120, [180] p., [2] plates (one folded) : ill. (metal cut) ; 12°.

Note

Dedication signed: R.H., i.e. Robert Harford

With a final advertisement leaf

Variant: title in an earlier state, with "fortification, and gunnery" and "uuiversal".