English surveyor and mathematician
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Cursus mathematicus, Mathematical sciences : in nine books ... : with the description, construction, and use of geometrical and nautical instruments, and the doctrine of triangles applied to practice in mensurations of all kinds / by William Leybourn.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716Date: 1690- Books
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An almanack and prognostication for the year of our redemption 1651 : being the third from leap-year ... : calculated for the meridian of London / by William Leybourn.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716Date: 1651- Books
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Urania practica : or, Practical astronomie : in VII parts, containing, I. An explanation of the vulgar notes used every year, with the order how to finde them for ever, in the Iulian and Gregorian accompts, both arithmetically and by new invented tables. II. An ephemeris for 19 years, beginning anno 1648, and ending anno 1667: ... III. An astrologicall treatise, shewing how to erect a figure, to judge of the effects of eclipses, and to finde the time when, and the place where, their effects will be most predominant. IV. The doctrine of the sphear or globe. V. An abreviate of geographie, ... VI. Divers astronomicall tables of the altitude, azimuth, amplitude, ... of the sun and fixed stars, ... VII. The true and perfect description and use of the globes, ... both geographicall and astronomicall. Unto which is added (for the benefit of sea-men) diverse rules and tables, of extraordinary use in navigation. All which rules, tables, and calculations, have been compared with the best approved authors and observations, and made more compendious then any hitherto bin publish- [sic] Nothing of this nature being extant in the English tongue. Calculated for the meridian of London. / By Vincent Wing, and Will. Leybourn, practitioners in the mathematicks.
Wing, Vincent, 1619-1668Date: 1652- Books
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Speculum anni, or, a glasse in which you may behold the revolution of the yeare of our Lord God MDCXLIX, being the first after bisextile or leap-yeare : shewing all the notable aspects of the planets with the moon, as also among themselves, with the true place of the sunne and moone, in signes, degrees, and minutes, for every day in the yeare, and the true place of the other planets for every fifth day : to which are added divers tables, both astronomical and nauticall, exactly calculated for the same yeare : [figured?] especially for the longitude and latitude of the famous and renowned city of London and may generally be used through the whole kingdome of England without any notable difference / by William Leyburn.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716Date: 1649- Books
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The line of proportion or numbers, commonly called Gunter's line made easie : by the which may be measured all manner of superficies and solids as boards, glass, pavement, timber, stone, &c. : also, how to perform the same by a line of equal parts, drawn from the centre of a two-foot rule : whereunto is added, The use of the line of proportion improved : whereby all manner of superficies and solids may both exactly and speedily be measured, without the help of pen or compasses, by inspection, looking only upon the ruler / by William Leybourn.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716Date: 1684