Trigonometria Britanica : or, The doctrine of triangles
Subtitle: in two books. The first of which sheweth the construction of the naturall, and artificiall sines, tangents and secants, and table of logarithms: with their use in the ordinary questions of arithmetick, extraction of roots, in finding the increase and rebate of money and annuities, at any rate or time propounded. The other, the use or application of the canon of artificiall sines, tangents and logarithms, in the most easie and compendious wayes of resolution of all triangles, whether plain or spherical
By: The one composed, the other translated, from the Latine copie written by Henry Gellibrand, sometime professor of astronomy in Gresham-Colledge London. A table of logarithms to 100.000, thereto annexed, with the artificial sines and tangents, to the hundred part of every degree; and the three first degrees to a thousand parts. By John Newton, M.A.
Contributors: Briggs, Henry, 1561-1630; Gellibrand, Henry, 1597-1636
Publisher: Printed by R. & W. Leybourne, and are to be sold by George Hurlock at Magnus Church corner, Joshua Kirton at the Kings Arms, and Thomas Pierrepont, at the Sun in Pauls Church-yard, and William Fisher at the Postern neer Tower-Hill
Published: 1658
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Mathematics; Early works to 1800; Trigonometry; Logarithms
Other titles: Trigonometria Britannica.
Notes: The table of logarithms is in three parts, each with individual t.p. in Latin, with imprint which reads: Londini, Ex Officina Leybourniana, MDCLVIII.

Henry Gellibrand completed and edited the Trigonometria Britannica left unfinished by Henry Briggs. Cf. Dict. nat. biog.

Dedicated "to the most illustrious lord, the Lord Richard Cromwel": p. [3] of 1st group.

Signatures: A⁴ B-2B², A-Y⁴ Z⁶ 2A-2K⁴ 2L⁶, A-C⁴ D² (last signature D issued as a folded leaf).

Errata: p. [8] of 1st group and p. [305] at end.

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), N1072

BM, v. 171, column 350

BN, v. 123, column 1083