Nine geometricall exercises, for young sea-men and others that are studious in mathematicall practices: containing IX particular treatises, whose contents follow in the next pages. All which exercises are geometrically performed, by a line of chords and equal parts, by waies not usually known or practised. Unto which the analogies or proportions are added, whereby they may be applied to the chiliads of logarithms, and canons of artificiall sines and tangents. By William Leybourn, philomath.
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Nine geometricall exercises, for young sea-men and others that are studious in mathematicall practices: containing IX particular treatises, whose contents follow in the next pages. All which exercises are geometrically performed, by a line of chords and equal parts, by waies not usually known or practised. Unto which the analogies or proportions are added, whereby they may be applied to the chiliads of logarithms, and canons of artificiall sines and tangents. By William Leybourn, philomath.
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Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.
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London :: printed by James Flesher, for George Sawbridge, living upon Clerken-well-green,
anno Dom. 1669.
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"Nine geometricall exercises, for young sea-men and others that are studious in mathematicall practices: containing IX particular treatises, whose contents follow in the next pages. All which exercises are geometrically performed, by a line of chords and equal parts, by waies not usually known or practised. Unto which the analogies or proportions are added, whereby they may be applied to the chiliads of logarithms, and canons of artificiall sines and tangents. By William Leybourn, philomath." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A48344.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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ADVERTISEMENT.
AND here I thought good to give notice, That if any Gentlemen studious in the Mathematicks have or shall have occasion for Instruments thereunto belonging, or Books to shew the Ʋse of them, they may be furnished with all sorts usefull both for Sea or Land, either in Silver, Brass or Wood, by Walter Hayes, at the Cross-daggers in Moor-fields, next door to the Pope's-head Tavern; where they may have all sorts of Maps, Globes, Sea-plats, Carpenters Rules, Post and Pocket-Dials for any Latitude.
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