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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 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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  An explanation of Mr. Gunter's quadrant, as it is enlarged with an analemma by Richard Holland.
  Date of publication:
  1676
  

  Author(s):

  Holland, R. (Richard), 1596-1677. ; Gunter, Edmund, 1581-1626. ; Prujean, Joh. (John), mathematical instrument maker.
  Description:
  "This book, with all mathematical instruments, are made and sold by John Prujean, mathematick-instrument-maker, near New College in Oxon." Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.
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  The making, description, and vse of a small portable instrument for ye pocket (or according to any magnitude) in forme of a mixt trapezia thus called a horizontall quadrant composed and prodused soly for the benefit and vse of such which are studious of mathematicall practice Written and delivered by Delamain, student and teacher of the mathematickes.
  Date of publication:
  1632
  

  Author(s):

  Delamain, Richard, fl. 1631.
  Description:
  The title page is engraved. Printer's name from STC. Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
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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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  The art of numbring by speaking-rods, vulgarly termed Nepeirs bones by which the most difficult parts of arithmetick, as multiplication, division, and extracting of roots both square and cube, are performed with incredible celerity and exactness (without any charge to the memory) by addition and subtraction only / published by W.L.
  Date of publication:
  1667
  

  Author(s):

  Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.
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  Attributed to William Leybourn. Cf. BM. An enlarged edition was published in 1721 under title: The description and use of ... Gunter's quadrant ... to which is added the use of Nepiar's bones. Folded table inserted. ...
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  A nevv quadrant, of more naturall, easie, and manifold performance, than any other heretofore extant framed according to the horizontall projection of the sphere, with the uses thereof. By C.B. maker of mathematic instruments in metall.
  Date of publication:
  1649
  

  Author(s):

  Brookes, Christopher, fl. 1649-1651.
  Description:
  Dedication signed C.B. (Christopher Brookes). Identified on UMI microfilm (Early English books, 1641-1700) reel 806 as Wing B43 (entry cancelled in Wing 2nd ed.). Reproductions of the originals in the Henry E. Huntington ...
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  The art of dialling by a new, easie, and most speedy way. Shewing, how to describe the houre-lines upon all sorts of plaines, howsoever, or in what latitude soever scituated: as also, to find the suns azimuth, whereby the sight of any plaine is examined. Performed by a quadrant, fitted with lines necessary to the purpose. Invented and published by Samuel Foster, professor of astronomie in Gresham Colledge.
  Date of publication:
  1638
  

  Author(s):

  Foster, Samuel, d. 1652.
  Description:
  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A01089) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 2628) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1097:07)
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