Leonard Digges, An Arithmetical Military Treatise named Stratioticos (1579)
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Date
1579
Author
Book title
An Arithmeticall Militare Treatise, named Stratioticos: Compendiously teaching the Ccience of Numbers, as well in Fractions as Integers, and so much of the Rules and Æquations Algebraicall and Arte of Numbers Cossicall, as are requisite for the Profession of a Soldiour. Together with the Moderne Militare Discipline, Offices, Lawes and Dueties in euery wel gouerned Campe and Armie to be obserued: Long since attempted by Leonard Digges Gentleman, Augmented, digested, and lately finished, by Thomas Digges, his Sonne. Whereto he hath also adioyned certaine Questions of great Ordinance, resolued in his other Treatise of Pyrotechny and great Artillerie, hereafter to bee published
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Publication place
London
Publisher
Henrie Bynneman
Transcription source
EEBO (Huntington); British Library C.76.b.14
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
- mathematics
- war
Summary
Logical definitions throughout
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: A Number is the multitude of Vnites sette togither, as 2. 3. 4. &c. All numbers may be expressed by these Characters following. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
sample: A Number is the multitude of Vnites sette togither, as 2. 3. 4. &c. All numbers may be expressed by these Characters following. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
STC
6848
Other editions
1590: STC 6849 ("augmented with sundry additions"; Thomas Digges identified as author)
Facsimiles
Digges, Leonard, and Thomas Digges. Stratioticos. The English experience, no. 71. Amsterdam and New York: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and Da Capo Press, 1968. view record
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
