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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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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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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Science -- Problems, exercises, etx. -- Early works to 1800.
Mathematics -- Problems, exercises, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
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Scientific recreations -- Early works to 1800.
Sundials -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A48262.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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PROBLEM XXIV. How is it that a man in one and the same time, may have his head upward, and his feet upward, being in one and the same place?
THe answer is very facill, for to be so he must be supposed to be in the centre of the earth: for as the heaven is above on every side, Coelum undique sursum, all that which looks to the heavens being distant from the centre is up∣ward; and it is in this sense that Ma••••olyeus in his Cosmographie, & first dialogue, reported of one that thought he was led by one of the Muses to hell, where he saw Lucifer sitting