The construction and principal uses of mathematical instruments
Subtitle: particularly of those invented or improved by the English / by Edmund Stone ; the whole illustrated with thirty folio copper-plates, containing the figures, &c., of the several instruments
By: translated from the French of M. Bion ... to which are added The construction and uses of such instruments as are omitted by M. Bion :
Contributors: Stone, Edmund, -1768; Senex, John, -1740, engraver
Edition: The 2nd ed. : to which is added a supplement containing a further account of some of the most useful mathematical instruments as now improved.
Publisher: Printed for J. Richardson, in Pater-noster-row
Published: 1758
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Scientific apparatus and instruments; Early works to 1800; Mathematical instruments
Work titles: Traité de la construction et principaux usages des instruments de mathématique
Notes: Supplement has special t.p.: A supplement to the English translation of Mr Bion's Construction and use of mathematical instruments : containing a further account of some of the most useful mathematical instruments, both antient and modern, as now improved / by Edmund Stone. London : Printed for J. Richardson ..., 1758.

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Publisher's advertisements: p. [326].

Errata: p. 325.

English short title catalogue, 13145401.