The vvorks of Edmund Gunter
Subtitle: conteining the description and use of the sector, corss-staff [sic] and other instruments : with a canon of artificiall signes and tangents to a radius of 10000.0000 parts, and the use thereof in astronomie, navigation, dialling &c
By: much enlarged by the author through the whole work in his life time ; together with a treatise of fortification ; whereunto is now added the further use of the quadrant fitted for daily practise with new lines serving the former uses and many other purposes more accurately / by Samuel Foster
Contributors: Bond, Henry; Foster, Samuel, -1652; Willson, Robert Wheeler, 1853-1922, former owner
Edition: The third edition / diligently perused, corrected and amended by Henry Bond.
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: Printed by F.N. for Francis Eglesfield ...
Published: 1653
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Mathematical instruments; Logarithms; Early works to 1800; Sundials; Navigation
Other titles: Works of Edmund Gunter; Workes of Edmund Gunter; Canon triangulorum.
Notes: With an added engraved title page: The workes of Edmund Gunter, ... The third edition. Printed for Fr: Eglesfield and are to be sould at the Marigold in Paulls [sic] Church yard, 1653.

"Canon triangulorum, or Tables of artificiall sines and tangents" has a separate title page dated 1652.

Includes tables and diagrams.

In this edition the letterpress title page has a comma following "quadrant" in the 14th line; a comma following "corrected" in the 20th line; and the last "n" in "London" is not swash.

Signatures: 3 leaves unsigned, b⁴, B-X⁴, Y², Aa-Nn⁴, nn⁴, Oo-Zz⁴, Aaa-Kkk⁴, Lll², Mmm-Qqq⁴, Aaaa-Iiii⁴, A-O⁴.

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