The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Euclide of Megara. Faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung, by H. Billingsley, citizen of London. Whereunto are annexed certaine scholies, annotations, and inuentions, of the best mathematiciens, both of time past, and in this our age. With a very fruitfull præface made by M. I. Dee, specifying the chiefe mathematicall scie[n]ces, what they are, and wherunto commodious: where, also, are disclosed certaine new secrets mathematicall and mechanicall, vntill these our daies, greatly missed
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The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Euclide of Megara. Faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung, by H. Billingsley, citizen of London. Whereunto are annexed certaine scholies, annotations, and inuentions, of the best mathematiciens, both of time past, and in this our age. With a very fruitfull præface made by M. I. Dee, specifying the chiefe mathematicall scie[n]ces, what they are, and wherunto commodious: where, also, are disclosed certaine new secrets mathematicall and mechanicall, vntill these our daies, greatly missed
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Euclid.
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Imprinted at London :: By Iohn Daye,
[1570 (3 Feb.]]
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Geometry -- Early works to 1800.
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"The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Euclide of Megara. Faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung, by H. Billingsley, citizen of London. Whereunto are annexed certaine scholies, annotations, and inuentions, of the best mathematiciens, both of time past, and in this our age. With a very fruitfull præface made by M. I. Dee, specifying the chiefe mathematicall scie[n]ces, what they are, and wherunto commodious: where, also, are disclosed certaine new secrets mathematicall and mechanicall, vntill these our daies, greatly missed." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00429.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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A Probleme. 7.
Two vnlike Cones or Cylinders, being geuen, to finde two right lines, which haue the same propor∣tion one to the other, that the two geuen cones or cylinders haue one to the other.
Vpon one of their bases rere a cone (if cones be compared) or a cylinder (if cylinders be compared) equall to the other: by the order of the second and third probleme••: and the heith of the cone or cy∣linder,
on whose base you rered an equall cone or cylinder, with the new heith found, haue that pro∣portion, which the cones or cylinders haue, one to the other, by the 14. of this twelfth booke.
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