Richard Norwood, Trigonometry (1631)

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Date

1631

Author

Richard Norwood Note: 12/10/2005

Book title

Trigonometrie. Or, The Doctrine Of Triangles Divided into two Bookes: The first shewing the mensuration of Right lined Triangles: The second of Sphericall: With the grounds and demonstrations thereof. Both performed by that late and excellent invention of Logarithmes, after a more easie and compendious manner, than hath beene formerly taught. Whereunto is annexed, chiefly for the use of seamen, A Treatise of the application thereof in the three principall kindes of sailing. With certaine necessary Tables used in Navigation

Publication place

London

Publisher

William Jones

Text type

printed book

Genre

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

Subject area

mathematics

Summary

"WEE will not insist upon the definitions and first principles of Geometry, being largely handled by many ..." (b1r), but definitions occur, such as "Logarithmes are numbers, so fitted to proportionall numbers, that themselves retaine equall differences" (b2v)

Extent

B1v-2v

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword

STC

18692

Other editions

1634: STC 18693;
1651: N1371;
1656: Wing N1372;
1661: Wing N1373;
1672: Wing N1375;
1678: Wing N1376;
1685: Wing N1377

Facsimiles

Norwood, Richard. Trigonometrie; or, The Doctrine of Triangles. The English experience, no. 404. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1971. view record