Mathematicall recreations. Or, A collection of many problemes, extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers as secrets and experiments in arithmetick, geometry, cosmographie, horologiographie, astronomie, navigation, musick, opticks, architecture, statick, mechanicks, chemistry, water-works, fire-works, &c. Not vulgarly manifest till now. Written first in Greeke and Latin, lately compi'ld in French, by Henry Van Etten, and now in English, with the examinations and augmentations of divers modern mathematicians whereunto is added the description and use of the generall horologicall ring: and the double horizontall diall. Invented and written by William Oughtred.

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Title: Mathematicall recreations. Or, A collection of many problemes, extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers as secrets and experiments in arithmetick, geometry, cosmographie, horologiographie, astronomie, navigation, musick, opticks, architecture, statick, mechanicks, chemistry, water-works, fire-works, &c. Not vulgarly manifest till now. Written first in Greeke and Latin, lately compi'ld in French, by Henry Van Etten, and now in English, with the examinations and augmentations of divers modern mathematicians whereunto is added the description and use of the generall horologicall ring: and the double horizontall diall. Invented and written by William Oughtred.
Publication: London :: printed for William Leake, at the signe of the Crown in Fleetstreet, between the two Temple Gates,; M D C LIII. [1653]
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Mathematicall RECREATIONS. OR, A Collection of many Problemes, extracted out of the Ancient and Modern Philoso∣phers, as Secrets and Experiments in Arithmetick, Geometry, Cosmographie, Horologiographie, Astronomie, Navigation, Musick, Opticks, Architecture, Stati••k, Mechanicks, Chemistry, Water-works, Fire-works, &c. Not vulgarly mani∣fest till now.

Written first in Greeke and Latin, lately compi'ld in French, by Henry Van Etten, and now in English, with the Examinations and Augmentations of divers Modern Mathematicians

Whereunto is added the Description and Use of the Generall Horologicall Ring: And The Double Horizontall Diall. Invented and written by WILLIAM OUGHTRED.

LONDON: Printed for William Leake, at the Signe of the Crown in Fleetstreet, between the two Temple Gates, MDCLIII.

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