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Operations of the geometric and military compass, 1606 / Galileo Galilei ; translated, with an introduction, by Stillman Drake.
Galileo GalileiDate: 1978
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La operazione del compasso geometrico et militare / Di Galileo Galilei ... Lettor delle matematiche nello studio di Padoua.
Galileo GalileiDate: 1640
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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
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La operazione del compasso geometrico et militare / Di Galileo Galilei ... Lettor delle matematiche nello studio di Padoua.
Galileo GalileiDate: 1640
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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.
Frederick Walter SimmsDate: 1844
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The uses of a quadrant fitted for daily practise : Both with the ordinary lines for the hour and azimuth, and other things of the suns course in reference to the horizon. And also with new lines serving to the fore-mentioned and other purposes more accurately. As namely to find the hour of the night by the stars; to describe the most usuall sorts of dials; to perform all common things in mensuration. And many other requisite conclusions. Performed in an accurate, easie, and delightfull way. By Sam: Foster, Professor of Astronomie in Gresham Colledg. Published by A:T.
Samuel FosterDate: 1652
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Tractatus primus [-tertius] instrumentorum mechanicorum. Levinii Hulsii ... / [Levinus Hulsius].
Levinus HulsiusDate: 1605
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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.
Frederick Walter SimmsDate: 1834
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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.
Michel CoignetDate: 1626
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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.
Frederick Walter SimmsDate: 1837
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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].
John RobertsonDate: 1757
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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 Queen catalogues / James W. Queen & Co. ; with a new introduction by Deborah Jean Warner.
Date: 1993
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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.
Jacques OzanamDate: 1769
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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].
Paolo CasatiDate: 1664
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L'usage du compas de proportion / de D. Henrion.
Denis HenrionDate: 1682
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Mathesis Cæsarea : sive, Amussis Ferdinandea.
Albert CurtzDate: 1662
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Usage du compas de proportion, et de l'insrument [sic] 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.
Jacques OzanamDate: 1748
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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 usuali mostra l'utilità di questo stromento / Paolo Casati della Compagnia di Giesu ; dando la ragioni, & apportando le dimostrationi di tutte le operationi nella fabrica, e nell'uso ; opera utile ... accresciuta notabilimente in questa seconda editione dal medesimo autore.
Paolo CasatiDate: 1685
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Nouvelle méthode pour diviser les instruments de mathématique et d'astronomie / Par M. le duc de Chaulnes.
Michel Ferdinand d'Albert d'AillyDate: [1768]
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The line of proportion, commonly called Gunter's line, made easie : a second part, with the addition of other lines, which may conveniently be put upon a two-foot rule and their uses exemplified / by Wil. Leybourn ... ; to which is added a supplement, containing the description and some uses, of a convenient two-foot joynt-rule ... by John Brown.
William LeybournDate: 1677
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Über geometrische Instrumente bei den muslimischen Völkern / von Eilhard Wiedemann.
Eilhard WiedemannDate: 1998