| Ref No | EFP/094/1636/14 |
| Finding Number | A094/1636/14 |
| Title | The description and vse of the sector, crosse-staffe, and other instruments : vvith a canon of artificiall sines and tangents, to a radius of 10000.0000. parts, and the vse thereof in astronomie, navigation, dialling, and fortification, &c. The second edition much augmented. By Edm. Gunter sometime professor of astronomie in Gresham Colledge in London |
| Level | Item |
| Date | 1636 |
| Description | Description and use of the sector; Canon triangulorum; Description and use of the sector, the crosse-staffe, and other instruments; First booke of the crosse-staffe; Generall vse of the canon and table of logarithmes; Generall use of the canon and table of logarithmes
With additional engraved title page (plate), with imprint: London printed by W.I. 1636. And are to be sold by Iames Boller at the signe of the Marigold in Pauls Church yard. 1636.; The pages between 78 and 79 (first count) are numbered "d" and 80. The leaf is a cancel. P. 114 (first count) misnumbered 116.; "The first booke of the crosse-staffe" (caption title) and "The generall vse of the canon and table of logarithmes" (caption title) begin new pagination on 2A1r and 4A1r respectively. "Canon triangulorum", first published separately in 1623, has separate dated title page and collates pi[sup]1[sup] A-O[sup]4.; Signatures: pi[sup]2[sup] b[sup]4[sup] B-K[sup]4[sup] L[sup]4([+/-]L4) M-X[sup]4[sup] Y[sup]2; 2A-3K[sup]4[sup] 3L[sup]2; 4A-4I[sup]4; chi1 A[sup]4[sup] [sup]2B-O[sup]4.; Leaf 3L2 is blank.; -3 plates; -3L2 (blank); cancel leaf; t.p. and additional t.p. repaired; leaf pi2 backed; MS. notes throughout; 4MS. leaves in old hand bound in at beginning; 873099.; Description and use of the sector.; Description and use of the sector, the crosse-staffe, and other instruments.; First booke of the crosse-staffe.; Generall vse of the canon and table of logarithmes.; Generall use of the canon and table of logarithmes.; Microfilm.; S103555. |
| Author | Gunter, Edmund, 1581-1626; Gunter, Edmund, 1581-1626 |
| Subject | Mathematical instruments -- Early works to 1800; Logarithms -- Early works to 1800; Trigonometry -- Tables |
| Physical Description | [12], 78, [2], 79-113, 116-163, [1]; 266, [2]; 56, 59-64, 67-75, [1]; [114] p., [5] leaves of plates, [1] table : ill. ; 4j. |
| Access Status | Open |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | London : Printed by William Iones, for Iames Bowler, and are to be sold at the Marigold in Pauls Church-yard, 1636. |