William Bourne, The Treasure for Travelers (1578)

Full Text

EEBO/TCP

Date

1578

Author

William Bourne Note: 30/09/2005

Lexicon title

A briefe note, taken out of M. Dees Mathematical Preface that goeth before Euclides Elementes nowe extant in our Inglish tongue, as touching what the Mathematical Sciences are

Book title

A booke called the Treasure for traueilers, deuided into fiue Bookes or partes, contaynyng very necessary matters, for all sortes of Trauailers, eyther by sea or by lande, written by William Bourne

Publication place

London

Printer

Thomas Dawson

Publisher

Thomas Woodcocke

Transcription source

EEBO/TCP (Henry E. Huntington Library 3427)

Text type

printed book

Genre

Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions

Subject area

mathematics

Extent

***2r-3r; pp. 2-3

Word-group

type: topical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: 1 Mecometrie. Is the measuring of the length anything whatsoeuer.

STC

3432

Facsimiles

Bourne, William. The Treasure for Traveilers: London, 1578 . The English experience, no. 911. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1979. view record

Criticisms

Heninger, S. K., Jr. "Tudor Literature of the Physical Sciences." Huntington Library Quarterly 32 (1968-69): 103-33, 249-70. 119. view record