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 438
s between the Parallels and the Vertical Point, all which may be reprefented in this manner. of a Circle, and therein infcribe the Chords of fuch Parallels of Altitude Linesot Alticude, according to their diftance fromthe Horizon. | _ That done, confider your Plane, which here, for exampleyis che… … Or having the Se&tor, you may draw an occult Line V E er Vera Tarcothe Axis V B,. and here prick down the Tangent of the Comp “
Mathematical instruments · Logarithms · Sundials · Navigation -- Early works to 1800
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