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1775 MATHEMATICS MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS & THEIR USES |
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Curent Price | 261.88 USD |
Item # | 300273217182 |
Status | Completed |
Binding | Leather |
Category | Science & Medicine |
Printing Year | 1775 |
Sub-Category | Mathematics |
End time | 11/23/2008 5:58:07 AM (EST)
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Ships From | Midlands |
Category | Books > Antiquarian & Collectible |
A TREATISE
OF
SUCH MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS
as are usually put into a Portable Case
Shewing some of their uses in arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, spherics, architecture, surveying, geography, perspective, &c. With an appendix; containing the description and use of the gunners callipers. And the description of, and precepts for the delineation of, ship-guns and sea mortars. To this treatise is prefixed a brief account of authors, who have wrote on the proportional compasses and sector
by
JOHN ROBERTSON
London, J. Nourse, 1775
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Description
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The third edition with many additions (the most complete edition), 8vo, 210 x 120 mm, 8½ x 5 inches, 12 engraved folding plates, diagrams in the text, pages xxiii, (1), 233, (3) - adverts, bound in full contemporary calf, gilt ruled border to covers, expertly rebacked at some time, original backstrip laid on, raised bands to spine, gilt floral decoration in compartments, gilt lettered morocco label.
Condition
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Corners slightly rubbed and slightly bumped, covers slightly stained and slightly scuffed, ink name on front pastedown, fore-edge of a few plates dusty and very slightly worn, contents otherwise clean, a couple of plates with old misfolds and protruding slightly from the textblock. Binding tight and firm. A very good copy of a scarce work.
Comment
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John Robertson (1712-1776) was master of the mathematical school at Christ's Hospital, and afterwards master of the Portsmouth Naval Academy. He later became the clerk, and subsequently, the librarian of the Royal Society. Sotheran, Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica Volume II, 14341: "The introduction to the ... work contains an interesting historical account of inventors of mathematical instruments. According to Chasles, Robertson was the first to discover the theorem that in stereographic projection the angle between two circles of the sphere equals the angle between two circles on projection." He was also the first to produce a slide rule with a runner attached in 1775.
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