Mathematicall recreations
Subtitle: 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, navigations, musicke, opticks, architecture, staticke, machanicks, chimestrie, waterworkes, fireworks, &c. : not vulgarly made manifest untill this time : fit for schollers, students, and gentlemen, that desire to know the philosophicall cause of many admirable conclusions : vsefull for others, to actuate and stirre them up to the search of further knowledge : and serviceable to all for many excellent things, both for pleasure and recreation : most of which were written first in Greeke and Latine
By: lately compiled in French, by Henry Van Etten gent. : and novv delivered in the English tongue, with the examinations, corrections, and augmentations.
Contributors: Etten, Hendrik van.; Leurechon, Jean, 1591-1670.; Oughtred, William, 1575-1660.; Cotes, Thomas, d. 1641
Publisher: Printed at London by T. Cotes, for Richard Hawkins ...
Published: 1633
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Science -- Early works to 1800; Mathematical recreations; Scientific recreations; Fireworks
Other titles: A collection of sundrie problemes; A collection of sundrie excellent problemes
Work titles: Récréation mathématique. English. 1633
Notes: Added engr. fold. t.p.: Mathematicall recreations, or, A collection of sundrie excellent problemes out of ancient & moderne phylosophers.

STC 10558.5

Translation of Récréations mathématiques, part I of which was first published (Pont-à-Mousson, 1624) with title: Récréation mathématique.  The dedication was signed: H. van Etten, long thought to be a pseudonym of Jean Leurochon, but now believed to have been a real person.  Authorship of parts 2 & 3 is unknown.  Attribution of the translation to William Oughtred is now questioned.  Cf. Trevor H. Hall, Mathematicall recreations: an exercise in seventeenth-century bibliography (Leeds, 1969).

Pages 163-174, 239-240 and 285-286 wanting.  Title page and "To the reader" from A thousand notable things, on various subjects ... (London: Printed for G. and T. Wilkie ..., 1785) bound in at end.