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  [A description of a mathematical instrument] made by John Browne.
  Date of publication:
  1671
  

  Author(s):

  Brown, John, philomath.
  Description:
  In the drawing: 1671 Made by John Browne at the Sphear & Sun Diall in the Great Minories neer Aldgate London. Reproduction of the original in the Chetham's Library.
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  A collection of centers and useful proportions on the line of numbers by John Brown ...
  Date of publication:
  1670
  

  Author(s):

  Brown, John, philomath.
  Description:
  Caption title. Place and date of publication suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the British Library.
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  Horologiographia, or, The art of dyalling being the second book of the use of the trianguler-quadrant : shewing the natural, artificial, and instrumental way, of making of sun-dials, on any flat superficies, with plain and easie directions, to discover their nature and affections, by the horizontal projection : with the way of drawing the usual ornaments on any plain : also, a familiar easie way to draw those lines on the ceiling of a room, by the trianguler quadrant : also, the use of the same instrument in navigation, both for observation, and operation : performing the use of several sea-instruments still in use / by John Brown, philomath.
  Date of publication:
  1671
  

  Author(s):

  Brown, John, philomath.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in Cambridge University Library. "An appendix to the use of the trianguler-quadrant in navigation ..." (p.[225]-305 [i.e. 304]) has special t.p. Errata: p. [5]
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  The description and use of a joynt-rule fitted with lines for the finding the hour of the day and azimuth of the sun, to any particular latitude, or, to apply the same generally to any latitude : together with all the uses of Gunters quadrant applyed thereunto ... / contriv'd & written by J. Brown, philomath.
  Date of publication:
  1661
  

  Author(s):

  Brown, John, philomath.
  Description:
  Woodcut illustration of man sighting with sextant: T.p. verso. Errata: p. 168. Imperfect: pages stained and tightly bound with slight loss of print. Reproduction of original in the British Library.
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  The description and use of the carpenters-rule together with The use of the line of numbers commonly called Gunters-line : applyed to the measuring of all superficies and solids, as board, glass, plaistering, wainscoat, tyling, paving, flooring, &c., timber, stone, square on round, gauging of vessels, &c. : also military orders, simple and compound interest, and tables of reduction, with the way of working by arithmatick in most of them : together with the use of the glasiers and Mr. White's sliding-rules, rendred plain and easie for ordinary capacities / by John Brown.
  Date of publication:
  1688
  

  Author(s):

  Brown, John, philomath.
  Description:
  Special t.p. (p. [169]): The use of the line of numbers on a sliding (or glasiers) rule in arithmatick & geometry ... / first drawn by Mr. White ; ... made easie and useful by John Brown. London printed : [s.n.], 1688. ...
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  The description and use of the carpenters-rule: together with the use of the line of numbers (inscribed thereon) in arithmetick and geometry. And the application thereof to the measuring of superficies and solids, gaging of vessels, military orders, interest and annuities: with tables of reduction, &c. : To which is added, the use of a (portable) geometrical sun-dial, with a nocturnal on the backside, for the exact and ready finding the hour of the day and night: and other mathematical conclusions. Also of a universal-dial for the use of seamen or others. With the use of a sliding or glasiers-rule and Mr. White's rule for solid measure. / Collected and fitted to the meanest capacity by J. Browne.
  Date of publication:
  1667
  

  Author(s):

  Brown, John, philomath. ; Gaywood, Richard, fl. 1650-1680.
  Description:
  Engraved frontispiece signed: R. Gaywood fecit. Special t.p. (p. [209]): The use of the line of numbers on a sliding (or glasiers) rule in arithmatique & geometry ... / first drawn by Mr. White ; ... made easie and useful ...
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  The description and use of the trianguler quadrant being a particular and general instrument, useful at land or sea, both for observation and operation : more universally useful, portable and convenient, than any other yet discovered, with its uses in arithmetick, geometry, superficial and solid, astronomy, dyalling, three wayes, gaging, navigation, in a method not before used / by John Brown, philomath.
  Date of publication:
  1671
  

  Author(s):

  Brown, John, philomath.
  Description:
  Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. Does not include 2d pt., "Horologiographia, or, The art of dyalling ..." Wing B5042. Errata: p. [16]
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  The triangular quadrant, or, The quadrant on a sector being a general instrument for land or sea observations : performing all the uses of the ordinary sea instruments, as Davis quadrant, forestaff, crosstaff, bow, with more ease, profitableness, and conveniency, and as much exactness as any or all of them : moreover, it may be made a particular and a general quadrant for all latitudes, and have the sector lines also : to which is added a rectifying table to find the suns true declination to a minute or two, any day or hour of the 4 years : whereby to find the latitude of a place by meridian, or any two other altitudes of the sun or stars / first thus contrived and made by John Brown ...
  Date of publication:
  1662
  

  Author(s):

  Brown, John, philomath.
  Description:
  Added illustrated t.p. Place of publication suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the British Library.
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