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. Collected out of the notes and papers of Sir Jonas Moore. By Nicholas Stephenson.

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  • 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. Collected out of the notes and papers of Sir Jonas Moore. By Nicholas Stephenson.
  • Mathematical compendium Useful practices in arithmetick, geometry, and astronomy, geography and navigation, embattelling, and quartering of armies, fortification and gunnery, gauging and dyalling Brigg's logarithms
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Imprint
London: printed and sold by Nathaniel Brooke at the Angel in Cornhil, 1674.
Publication year
1674-1674
ESTC No.
R216764
Grub Street ID
91632
Description
[12], 120, [98] p., [7] plates (2 folded) : tables ; 12⁰
Note
Dedication signed: Nicholas Stephenson.

Plates pasted to verso of title page and A1r (latter plate is folded); plates inserted between A1v and A2r, A2v and A3r; plates pasted to last two blank leaves (last plate folded).

"Brigg's logarithms" has caption title, and follows p. 120 on ?B1r-?D3r.

Signatures: A (italic)? (A4 mis-signed A3) A-K? ?B-?D?? (-?C12) ?E-?F? chi?.