A treatise of such mathematical instruments, as are usually put into a portable case. Shewing some of their uses in arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, spherics, Architecture, Surveying, Geography, Perspective, &c. with an Appendix; Containing The Description and Use of the Gunners Callipers. And The Description of, and Precepts for the Delineation of, Ship-Guns and Sea Mortars. To this Treatise, is prefixed A Brief Account of Authors, who have wrote on the Proportional Compasses and Sector. The third edition, with many additions. By John Robertson, Librarian to the Royal Society.

People / Organizations

• John Robertson (Author)
• John Nourse ("printed for")

Imprint

London: printed for J. Nourse, Bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand, M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]

Publication year

1775-1775

ESTC No.

T92245

Grub Street ID

312044

Description

xxiii,[1],233,[3]p.,plates : ill. ; 8⁰

Note

With a final advertisement leaf.