36 results filtered with: Mathematical instruments
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Operations of the geometric and military compass, 1606 / Galileo Galilei ; translated, with an introduction, by Stillman Drake.
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.Date: 1978- Books
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Mathematicks made plain, In the Solution of Variety Of Useful Propositions in Arithmetick. Interest, Simple and Compound. Geometry. Surveying. Gauging. Measuring all Artificers Works. Trigonometry, Plain and Spherical. Astronomy. Geography. Navigation. Dialling. Chronology. Dioptricks. Staticks. Gunnery. Military Fortification. Civil and Naval Architecture. Mechanick Powers. Automaticks, or Clock-Work, &c. All Perform'd by that Excellent Line of Numbers, commonly call'd Gunter's-Line. Being A necessary Companion for Gentlemen, Military Officers, Engineers, Architects, Seamen, Surveyors, Usurers, Shopkeepers of all sorts; Artificers, as Masons, Bricklayers, Carpenters, Shipwrights, Watch-Makers, Glaziers, Painters, Plaisterers, &c. By Richard Neve, Philomath. Approv'd of by the Royal Society.
Neve, Richard.Date: 1708- Books
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The description and use of a case of mathematical instruments; particularly of all the lines contained on the plain scale, the sector, the gunter, and the proportional compasses. With a practical application exemplified in many useful Cases of Geometry, and Plain and Spherical Trigonometry. The whole illustrated by copper-plate figures By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1771]- Books
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The description, nature, and general use of the sector and plain-scale, Briefly and Painly laid down. As also a short account of the uses of the lines of numbers, artificial sines, and tangents.
Stone, Edmund, -1768.Date: 1746- Books
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The description and use of a complete sett or case of pocket-instruments: containing the construction of the several lines laid down on the plain-scale, and sector; with their application, in variety of Mathematical Problems. By William Webster.
Webster, William, approximately 1684-1744.Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]- Books
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Nuovi istromenti per la descrizione di diverse curve antiche e moderne; et di molte altre, che servir possono alla speculazione de' geometri, ed all'uso de'pratici. Col progetto di due nuove macchine per la nautica ed una per la meccanica, e con alcune osservazioni sopra de' poligioni rettilinei regolari / Del conte Giambatista Suardi.
Suardi, Giambatista, 1711-1767.Date: 1752- Books
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The description and use of a complete sett or case of pocket-instruments: containing the construction of the several lines laid down on the plain-scale, and sector; with their application, in variety of mathematical problems. By William Webster.
Webster, William, approximately 1684-1744.Date: [1755?]- Books
La operazione del compasso geometrico et militare / Di Galileo Galilei ... Lettor delle matematiche nello studio di Padoua.
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.Date: 1640- Books
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Treatise on the principal mathematical instruments employed in surveying, levelling, and astronomy : explaining their construction, adjustments, and use. With an appendix, and tables / By Frederick Walter Simms.
Simms, Frederick Walter, 1803-1865.Date: 1844- Books
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Geometrical and graphical essays, containing, a general description of the mathematical instruments used in geometry, civil and military surveying, levelling, and perspective; with many new practical problems. Illustrated by thirty-four Copper plates. By the late George Adams, mathematical instrument maker to his majesty, &c. The second edition, corrected and enlarged by William Jones, mathematical instrument maker.
Adams, George, 1750-1795.Date: 1797 [i.e. 1800]- Books
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The description and use of an orrery of a new construction, Representing in the various Parts of its Machinery all the Motions and Phoenomena of the Planetary System; To which is subjoin'd a mathematical theory For calculating the Wheel-Work to the greatest Degree of Exactness. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1771]- Books
Tractatus primus [-tertius] instrumentorum mechanicorum. Levinii Hulsii ... / [Levinus Hulsius].
Hulsius, Levinus, -1606.Date: 1605- Books
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The description and use of a graphical perspective and microscope, For drawing all Kinds of Objects in true Perspective, and a just Proportion of their Parts, with Readiness and Ease. To which is added, A short Account of an Opake solar microscope. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1771]- Books
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Treatise on the principal mathematical instruments employed in surveying, levelling, and astronomy : explaining their construction, adjustments, and use. With an appendix, and tables / by Frederick W. Simms.
Simms, Frederick Walter, 1803-1865.Date: 1834- Books
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Description of an engine for dividing strait lines on mathematical instruments. By Mr. J. Ramsden, mathematical instrument-maker, and optician. Published by order of the Commissioners of Longitude.
Ramsden, J. (Jesse), 1735-1800.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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A description of pocket and magazine cases of mathematical drawing instruments; in which is explained the use of each instrument, and Particularly of the Sector and Plain Scale, in the Solution of a Variety of Problems; Likewise, the Description, Construction, and Use, of Gunter's Scale. Illustrated with copper-plates. By J. Barrow, Private Teacher of the Mathematics.
Barrow, John, Sir, 1764-1848.Date: [1792?]- Books
La geometrie, reduite en vne facile et briefue practique, par deux excellens instrumens, dont l'un est le pantometre ou compas de proportion de Michel Connette ... enrichy de huict diuisions par dessus le commun & ordinaire: l'autre est l'usage du compas a huict poinctes, inuenté par Fabrice Mordente ... / Et composé en italien par Michel Connette ... Traduits en François par P.G.S. Mathematicien.
Coignet, Michel, 1549-1623.Date: 1626- Books
Treatise on the principal mathematical instruments employed in surveying, levelling, and astronomy : explaining their construction, adjustments, and use. With an appendix, and tables / By Frederick Walter Simms.
Simms, Frederick Walter, 1803-1865.Date: 1837- Books
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A treatise of such mathematical instruments as are usually put into a portable case, containing their various uses. In arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, architecture, surveying, gunnery, etc., with a short account of the authors who have treated on the proportional compasses and sector. To which is now added an appendix containing the description and use of the gunner's callipers / [J. Robertson].
Robertson, J. (John), 1712-1776.Date: 1757- Books
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The description and use of a complete sett or case of pocket-instruments: containing the construction of the several lines laid down on the plain-scale, and sector; with their application, in variety of Mathematical problems. By William Webster.
Webster, William, approximately 1684-1744.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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Usage du compas de proportion, et de l'instrument universel, pour résoudre promptement & très-exactement les problêmes de la géometrie pratique, tant sur le papier que sur le terrein, sans aucun calcul. Avec un traité de la division des champs / Par M. Ozanam.
Ozanam, Jacques, 1640-1717.Date: 1769- Books
Fabrica, et uso del compasso di proportione, dove insegna à gli artefici il modo di fare in esso le necessarie divisioni. E con varij problemi vsuali mostra l'vtilità di questo stromento, del molto rev. P. Paolo Casati ... dando la ragioni, & apportando le dimostrationi di tutte le operationi nella fabrica, e nell'vso ... / [Paolo Casati].
Casati, Paolo, 1617-1707.Date: 1664- Books
L'usage du compas de proportion / de D. Henrion.
Henrion, Denis, -approximately 1640.Date: 1682- Books
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Sectionum conicarum libri quinque. Auctore Roberto Simson, M.D. In Academia Glasguensi Matheseos Professore.
Simson, Robert, 1687-1768.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
Mathesis Cæsarea : sive, Amussis Ferdinandea.
Curtz, Albert, 1600-1671.Date: 1662