John Collins

English mathematician (1625–1683)

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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 practioners in the mathematicks / Written by John Collins accountant philomath. Also an appendix touching reflected dyalling [by J. Lyon] From a glass placed at any reclination.
John CollinsDate: 1659
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Salt and fishery : a discourse thereof insisting on the following heads : 1) the several ways of making salt in England, and foreign parts, 2) the character and qualities good and bad, of these several sorts of salt, English refin'd asserted to be much better than any foreign, 3) the catching and curing, or salting of the most eminent or staple sorts of fish, for long or short keeping, 4) the salting of flesh, 5) the cookery of fish and flesh, 6) extraordinary experments in preserving butter, flesh, fish, fowl, fruit, and roots, fresh and sweet, for long keeping, 7) the case and sufferings of the saltworkers, 8) proposals for their relief, and for the advancement of the fishery, the woollen, tin, and divers other manufactures / by John Collins.
John CollinsDate: 1682
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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.
John CollinsDate: 1659
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The description and use of four several quadrants, two great ones, and two small ones. With the use of a diagonal-scale and semicircle ... / Invented and written by ... J.C. ... with additions, by John Good.
John CollinsDate: 1750
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Salt and fishery, a discourse thereof / [John Collins].
John CollinsDate: 1682