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, horologographie, astronomie, navigation, musicke, opticks, architecture, staticke, machanicks, chimestrie, waterworkes, fireworks, &c. ...
By: 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.
Contributors: Etten, Hendrik van.; Leurechon, Jean, 1591-1670.; Oughtred, William, 1575-1660.; McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: By T. Cotes, for Richard Hawkins ...
Published: 1633
Place of publication: Printed at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Scientific recreations -- Early works to 1800.; Mathematical recreations -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Mathematicall recreations; Collection of sundrie problems extracted out of the ancient and moderne philosophers
Notes: STC (2nd ed.) 10558.5
Added t.p., engraved.
Authorship in doubt. Variously attributed to Jean Leurochon, Hendrik van Etten and William Oughtred (to whom is also attributed the translation). Cf. Hall, T. Mathematicall recreations, an exercise in 17th-cent. bibl.
First English ed.
Signatures: A⁸ *⁸ 2*⁴ B-R⁸ S⁴ T⁸ V⁶.
LC copy imperfect: engraved t.p. wanting. Bookplate of Eugene L. Bulson.
Source: Gift of John J. and Hanna M. McManus and Morris N. and Chesley V. Young, Oct. 12, 1955.