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  The sector on a quadrant, or A treatise containing the description and use of four several quadrants two small ones and two great ones, each rendred many wayes, both general and particular. Each of them accomodated for dyalling; for the resolving of all proportions instrumentally; and for the ready finding the hour and azimuth universally in the equal limbe. Of great use to seamen and practitioners in the mathematicks. Written by John Collins accountant philomath. Also An appendix touching reflected dyalling from a glass placed at any reclination.
  Date of publication:
  1659
  

  Author(s):

  Collins, John, 1625-1683. ; Lyon, John, professor of mathematics. Appendix touching reflective dialling. ; Sutton, Henry, mathematical instrument maker.
  Description:
  The quadrants described were made and engraved by Henry Sutton, who also calculated some of the tables and drew the projections. "The description and vses of a great universal quadrant" has separate title page dated 1658; ...
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  Navigation by the mariners plain scale new plain'd: or, A treatise of geometrical and arithmetical navigation; wherein sayling is performed in all the three kindes by a right line, and a circle divided into equal parts. Containing 1. New ways of keeping of a reckoning, or platting of a traverse, both upon the plain and mercators chart ... 2. New rules for estimating the ships way through currents, and for correcting the dead reckoning. 3. The refutation of divers errors, and of the plain chart, and how to remove the error committed thereby ... as also a table thereof made to every other centesm. 4. A new easie method of calculation for great circle-sayling, with new projections, schemes and charts ... 5. Arithmetical navigation, or navigation performed by the pen, if tables were wanting ... By John Collins of London, Pen-man, accomptant, philomathet.
  Date of publication:
  1659
  

  Author(s):

  Collins, John, 1625-1683.
  Description:
  Parts 1, 2, and 3 of "The mariners plain scale new plain'd" each have separate dated title page, pagination and register. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Octob: 31". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  Geometrical dyalling, or, Dyalling performed by a line of chords onely, or by the plain scale wherein is contained two several methods of inscribing the hour-lines in all plains, with the substile, stile and meridian, in their proper coasts and quantities : being a full explication and demonstration of divers difficulties in the works of learned Mr. Samuel Foster deceased ... : whereto is added four new methods of calculation, for finding the requisites in all leaning plains ... : also how by projecting the sphere, to measure off all the arks found by calculation ... : lastly, the making of dyals from three shadows of a gnomon ... / written by John Collins ...
  Date of publication:
  1659
  

  Author(s):

  Collins, John, 1625-1683.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library. Errata: p. 82.
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  To the reader
  Date of publication:
  1675
  

  Author(s):

  Collins, John, 1625-1683.
  Description:
  Caption title. Headpiece; initial letter. Signed at end: John Collins. The preface and first page of instruction to: An introduction to merchants-accompts / John Collins. Cf. Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of the original ...
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  A plea for the bringing in of Irish cattel, and keeping out of fish caught by foreigners together with an humble address to the honourable members of Parliament of the countries of Cornwal and Devon, about the advancement of tin, fishery, and divers manufactures / by John Collins.
  Date of publication:
  1680
  

  Author(s):

  Collins, John, 1625-1683.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
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