Mathematicall recreations. Or a collection of sundrie problemes, extracted out of the ancient and moderne philosophers, as secrets in nature, and experiments in arithmeticke, geometrie, cosmographie, horolographie, astronomie, navigation, musicke, opticks, architecture, staticke, machanicks, chimestrie, waterworkes, fireworks, &c. ... Most of which were written first in Greeke and Latine, lately compiled in French, by Henry Van Etten Gent. And now delivered in the English tongue, with the examinations, corrections, and augmentations.
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Mathematicall recreations. Or a collection of sundrie problemes, extracted out of the ancient and moderne philosophers, as secrets in nature, and experiments in arithmeticke, geometrie, cosmographie, horolographie, astronomie, navigation, musicke, opticks, architecture, staticke, machanicks, chimestrie, waterworkes, fireworks, &c. ... Most of which were written first in Greeke and Latine, lately compiled in French, by Henry Van Etten Gent. And now delivered in the English tongue, with the examinations, corrections, and augmentations.
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Etten, Hendrick van.
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Printed at London :: By T. Cotes, for Richard Hawkins, dwelling in Chancery Lane, neere the Rowles,
1633.
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Science -- Early works to 1800.
Scientific recreations -- Early works to 1800.
Fireworks -- Early works to 1800.
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"Mathematicall recreations. Or a collection of sundrie problemes, extracted out of the ancient and moderne philosophers, as secrets in nature, and experiments in arithmeticke, geometrie, cosmographie, horolographie, astronomie, navigation, musicke, opticks, architecture, staticke, machanicks, chimestrie, waterworkes, fireworks, &c. ... Most of which were written first in Greeke and Latine, lately compiled in French, by Henry Van Etten Gent. And now delivered in the English tongue, with the examinations, corrections, and augmentations." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00425.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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Corolaire. 2.
BY which also may bee inferred, that the same reflexions may bee seene in a Regular Polygon, and placing as may Glasses as there are sides, counting two for one; for then the object being set to one of the Glasses, and the eye in the other, the Image will be seene easily.
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