Mathematical recreations: or, A collection of many problems extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers: : as, secrets and experiments in arithmetick, geometry, cosmography, horologiography, astronomy, navigation, musick, opticks, architecture, statick, mechanicks, chymistry, water-works, fire-works, &c. Not vulgarly manifest till now. Written first in Greek and Latin, lately compil'd 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 double horizontal dyal, and the general horological ring: /
Leurechon, Jean,1591-1670.
London: : Printed for William Leake, and John Leake, at the Crown in Fleetstreet, between the two Temple-Gates.,
1674..
Translation of: Jean Leurechon.  Récréation mathématique.
Henry Van Etten is a pseudonym of Jean Leurechon.
With an added engraved title page.
"The description and use of the double horizontal dyal" has separate dated title page and pagination.
Identified as Wing O585 on UMI microfilm set "Early English books, 1641-1700", reel 1023.
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