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Concept

Trigonometry

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  • Mensuration: a man using an inclinometer (?) and trigonometry to measure a water-tank (?) in a field. Engraving, ca.1760.
  • A mathematician standing before a blackboard, on which he has drawn a diagram. Engraving by I.S. Klauber after Le Fort after F. Bol.
  • Surveying: methods of surveying hills around a bay (?). Engraving by J.B.P. Tardieu.
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    Mr. Blundevil His exercises, contayning eight treatises ... which treatises are very necessary to be read and learned of all young gentlemen that have not been excercised in such disciplines, and yet are desirous to have knowledge as well in cosmographie, astronomie and geographie, as also in the art of navigation, in which art it is impossible to profit without the help of these or such like instructions / To the furtherance of which art of navigation, the said Mr. Blundevil specially wrote the said treatises.

    Blundeville, Thomas, active 1561. | Date: 1636
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    Mensuration: a man using an inclinometer (?) and trigonometry to measure a water-tank (?) in a field. Engraving, ca.1760.

    | Reference: 46695i
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    Introductiones ad veram physicam et veram astronomiam. Quibus accedunt Trigonometria. De viribus centralibus. De legibus attractionis / [John Keill].

    Keill, John, 1671-1721. | Date: 1739
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    A mathematician standing before a blackboard, on which he has drawn a diagram. Engraving by I.S. Klauber after Le Fort after F. Bol.

    Bol, Ferdinand, 1616-1680. | Date: 1800-1809 | Reference: 46982i
    Part of: Musée français.
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    Ṯābit b. Qurra über den geometrischen Richtigkeitsnachweis der Auflösung der quadratischen Gleichungen / von P.Luckey.

    Luckey, Paul. | Date: 1997
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