Leonard Digges, A Geometrical Practise, Named Pantometria (1571)
Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1571
Author
Book title
A Geometrical Practise, named Pantometria, diuided into three Bookes, Longimetra, Planimetra, and Stereometria, containing Rules manifolde for mensuration of all lines, Superficies and Solides: with sundry straunge conclusions both by instrument and without, and also by Perspectiue glasses, to set forth the true description or exact plat of an whole Region: framed by Leonard Digges Gentleman, lately finished by Thomas Digges his sonne. Who hathe also thereunto adioyned a Mathematicall treatise of the fiue regulare Platonicall bodies, and their Metamorphosis or transformation into fiue other equilater vniforme solides Geometricall, of his owne inuention, hitherto not mentioned of by any Geometricians
Publication place
London
Publisher
Henrie Bynneman
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP (Yale University Library)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
mathematics
Summary
(a) "Elementes of geometrie, or diffinitions"; and
(b) "Diffynitions".
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Note LEME misreading in word-entry 56: in "A lyne is sayde to be equall in power with two or moe lynes, when its square is equall to all their squares.", "its" should be "his" (correction courtesy of Felicia Steele 23/4/14).
explanations: English
explanations: English
Note LEME misreading in word-entry 56: in "A lyne is sayde to be equall in power with two or moe lynes, when its square is equall to all their squares.", "its" should be "his" (correction courtesy of Felicia Steele 23/4/14).
Extent
B1r-B4r (1-5), P4, T1v-T3r
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: A Poynt I call whiche cannot be diuided, whose parte is nothing.
sample: A Poynt I call whiche cannot be diuided, whose parte is nothing.
Schafer
1571 D
STC
6858
Catalog
Cockle, Maurice J. D. A Bibliography of English Military Books up to 1642 and of Contemporary Foreign Works. London: n.p., 1900. 14-15 . view record
Other editions
1591 (STC 6859. with a supplement of 40 definitions from the Pyrotechnie Militarie)
Criticisms
Larkey, Sanford V. "Scientific Glossaries in Sixteenth Century English Books." Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine 5 (1937): 105-14. view record
Patterson, Louise Diehl. "Leonard and Thomas Digges: Biographical Notes." Isis 42.2, alt. no. 128; 43.2 (1951 June): 120-21, 124-25. view record
Patterson, Louise Diehl. "Leonard and Thomas Digges: Biographical Notes." Isis 42.2, alt. no. 128; 43.2 (1951 June): 120-21, 124-25. view record
