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, Knt. late surveyor general of his Majesty's Ord'nance

People / Organizations

• Jonas Moore (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for Robert Harford, at the Angel in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange, 1681. The second edition, with many large additions.; ..

Added name

Harford, Robert, active 1677-1680.; Stephenson, N. (Nicholas), active 1674-1680.

Publication year

1681

ESTC No.

R269

Grub Street ID

110145

Description

[24], 120, [180] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., tables ; 12°.

Note

Signatures: [superscript pi]A]1]2] A-K]6] ]2B-H]1]2] I]6

Dedication signed: Robert Harford

"A table of artificial sines and tangents, for every degree and minute of the quadrant, fitted to the size of the logarithms." has separate title page dated 1679 on leaf ]2D10r; register is continuous

With a final advertisement leaf

The first edition "collected out of the notes and papers of Sir Jonas Moore by Nicholas Stephenson" was published in 1674. cf. DNB.