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 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 us of the generall horologicall ring: and the double horizontall diall. Invented and written by William Oughtred.
Leurechon, Jean,1591-1670.
Oughtred, William,1575-1660.Description and us of the generall horologicall ring: and the double horizontall diall.
London : printed for William Leake, at the signe of the Crown in Fleetstreet, between the two Temple-Gates,
MDCLIII. [1653]
Translation of: Jean Leurechon. Récréation mathematique.
Henry Van Etten is a pseudonym of Jean Leurechon.
With an added engraved title page reading: Mathematicall recreations or a collection of sundrie excellent problemes out of ancient and moderne phylosophers.
"The description and use of the double horizontall dyall" has separate title page dated 1652; register is continuous.
A reissue, with cancel title page, of the other 1653 edition with "Greeke" and "compi'ld" in the title and "Temple Gates" in the imprint.
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996),
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