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The works of Edmund Gunter : containing the description and use of the sector, cross-staff, bow, quadrant, and other instruments : with a canon of artificial sines and tangents to a radius of 10.00000 parts, and the logarithms from an unite to 10000 : the uses whereof are illustrated in the practice of arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, navigation, dialling, and fortifcation : and some questions in navigation added by Mr. Henry Bond ... : to which is added, the description and use of another sector and quadrant, both of them invented by Mr. Sam. Foster ..., furnished with more lines, and differing from those of Mr. Gunters both in form and manner of working. -- (1673)

Gunter, Edmund, 1581-1626 · London : Printed by A.C. for Francis Eglesfield ... · leaf 39

An illustration from The works of Edmund Gunter : containing the description and use of the sector, cross-staff, bow, quadrant, and other instruments : with a canon of artificial sines and tangents to a radius of 10.00000 parts, and the logarithms from an unite to 10000 : the uses whereof are illustrated in the practice of arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, navigation, dialling, and fortifcation : and some questions in navigation added by Mr. Henry Bond ... : to which is added, the description and use of another sector and quadrant, both of them invented by Mr. Sam. Foster ..., furnished with more lines, and differing from those of Mr. Gunters both in form and manner of working. --, 1673, leaf 39
The Defsription of the Lines. iP 5. To divide the Lines if Sines and Tangents on, the Side of the Seétir. into gO. … And this A B (fo divided) thall be the Line of Sines, and muft be transferred into the Seftor. The Number fet to them are to be 10, 20). 30, Gc. unto 90, as inthe Example. | If now inthe point D, unto the Diameter C D, we thall raife a Per- pendicular DE, and toit draw ftreight Lines from the…

Mathematical instruments · Logarithms · Sundials · Navigation -- Early works to 1800

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