Practical geometry or a manual of mathematical recreations. : Shewing how to perform some select propositions of geometry; with the description and making of a quadrant, by which any of ordinary capacity, by their own endustry, may (exactly and speedily) find the suns declination, amplitude, altitude, azimuth and hour of the day, &c. at all times, and in all places, both by sea and land. As also how to find the true heights, depths and distances of hills, castles, towers or steeples, whether accessible, or inaccessible, without approaching the same: together with useful instructions, for water-levels, coal-heughs, and water-works, &c. And how to draw an horizontal dial for any latitude. Fitted for the ingenious of all ranks and professions, whether military, or civil: but principally for artificers, massons, wrights, surveyors of lands or buildings, engineers, military architects, gunners, myners, and all other students in the mathematicks..
Corss, James.
[Edinburgh] : Printed at Edinburgh by a Society of Stationers,,
Anno 1666..
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EEBO citation id: 52612108
Initial leaf is a plate bearing an illustration of a protractor.
With a final leaf of errata.
Page 62 misnumbered "52".
Wing (2nd ed., 1994)
ESTC
Aldis, H.G. Scotland,
Geometry