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Date
15820
Author
Book title
A Discoverie of sundrie errours and faults daily committed by Landmeaters, ignorant of Arithmetike and Geometrie
Publication place
London
Printer
Henry Middleton
Publisher
Gregory Seton
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
- hard words
- surveying
Summary
Definitions of a small number of mathematical terms, and a discussion of why mathematicians use, in English, "strange" terms of art from ther Greek.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: gloss
sample: To set forth a plat, in true proportion and Symetrie, are to say, to take, and set forth any plat in such sort, that you may readily tel thereby, euerie angle, bought, crooke, and straight line in the thing measured, and howe farre any place is distant from other. Also you may know by your plat the whole circuit, & outboundes of your land, which Geometers call the perimetrie. Superfice is to say, the vpper face of any thing, as in measuring of lande, pauements, hangings, & such like, we desire only to know the content of the outward plaine, or vpper face of the thing, not regarding thicknes, weight, grossenes or depth: but only the mesure of ye vpper parts as in groundes: which consist onely of length, and bredth, whether they be flats, or leuels, hils, or valleis.
sample: To set forth a plat, in true proportion and Symetrie, are to say, to take, and set forth any plat in such sort, that you may readily tel thereby, euerie angle, bought, crooke, and straight line in the thing measured, and howe farre any place is distant from other. Also you may know by your plat the whole circuit, & outboundes of your land, which Geometers call the perimetrie. Superfice is to say, the vpper face of any thing, as in measuring of lande, pauements, hangings, & such like, we desire only to know the content of the outward plaine, or vpper face of the thing, not regarding thicknes, weight, grossenes or depth: but only the mesure of ye vpper parts as in groundes: which consist onely of length, and bredth, whether they be flats, or leuels, hils, or valleis.
STC
25997
