Artifact Details

Title

The description and use of the sector. The cross-staffe and other instruments. For such as are studious for mathematicall practice.

Catalog Number

B274.83

Type

Document

Description

Four separate books bound into one.

Additional titles: First book of the crosse-staffe; Canon triangulorum, or tables of artificial sines and tangents, to a radius of 100000,0000 parts, and each minute of the quadrant.

Date

1624; 1623

Author

Gunter, Edmund

Publisher

Jones, William

Place of Publication

London

Extent

143 p.; 216 p.; 2 [103] p. ; 19 p.

Dimensions

overall: 1 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in x 7 in

Category

Book

Collection Title

Gwen Bell artifact and book collection

Series Title

Algorithms, tables, and history of calculation books

Credit

The Gwen Bell Early Book Collection of Algorithms, Tables, and History of Calculations

Lot Number

X7090.2014