Robert Norton, A Mathematical Appendix (1604)

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Date
1604
Author
Robert Norton Note: 12/10/2005
Lexicon title
Briefe Expositions of the Geometricall and Astronomicall tearmes mentioned in this Treatise
Book title
A Mathematicall Apendix, Containing Many Propositions And Conclusions mathematicall: with necessary obseruations both for Mariners at Sea, and for Cherographers and Surueyors of Land; Together with an Easie perspectiue mechanicall way, to Delineat Sunne dyalls vpon any Wall or Plane giuen, be it direct, inclyning, declyning, or reclyning, from the Horizon, or Meridian, in any Region or Place of knowne Latitude. With other things pleasant and profitable for the weale publick, not heretofore extant in our vulgar: Partly collected out of Foreigne moderne writers, and partlie inuented and practised by the Author
Publication place
London
Printer
Richard Bradock
Publisher
Roger Jackson
Transcription source
Henry E. Huntington Library 223765
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
  • mathematics
  • navigation and the sea
Extent
G3r-G4r
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
Schafer
1604 N
STC
18675
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
Clarke, Frances Marguerite. "New Light on Robert Recorde." Isis 8.1, alt. no. 25 (1926): 50-70. view record