Mathematical recreations, or, A collection of many problems extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers, as secrets and experiments in arithmetick, geometry, cosmography, horologiography, astronomy, navigation, musick, opticks, architecture, statick, mechanicks, chymistry, water-works, fire-works, &c. ...
By: 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 use of the double horizontal dyal, and the general horological ring, invented and written by William Oughtred.
Contributors: Etten, Hendrik van.; Leurechon, Jean, 1591-1670.; Oughtred, William, 1575-1660.; Oughtred, William, 1575-1660.; McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress); George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for William Leake, and John Leake ...
Published: 1674
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Scientific recreations -- Early works to 1800.; Mathematical recreations -- Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Collection of many problems extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers.
Notes: Wing (2nd ed.) L1791
Added t.p., engraved.
"The description and use of the double horizontal dyal" has a special t.p.
Authorship in doubt. Variously attributed to Jean Leurechon, 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. published in 1633.
Signatures: [A]⁴ a-b⁸ B-U⁸.
Source: Gift of John J. and Hanna M. McManus and Morris N. and Chesley V. Young, Oct. 12, 1955.