Mathematicall recreations. Or a collection of sundrie problemes, extracted out of the ancient and moderne philosophers, as secrets in nature, and experiments in arithmeticke, geometrie, cosmographie, horolographie, astronomie, navigation, musicke, opticks, architecture, staticke, machanicks, chimestrie, waterworkes, fireworks, &c. ... Most of which were written first in Greeke and Latine, lately compiled in French, by Henry Van Etten Gent. And now delivered in the English tongue, with the examinations, corrections, and augmentations

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Mathematicall recreations. Or a collection of sundrie problemes, extracted out of the ancient and moderne philosophers, as secrets in nature, and experiments in arithmeticke, geometrie, cosmographie, horolographie, astronomie, navigation, musicke, opticks, architecture, staticke, machanicks, chimestrie, waterworkes, fireworks, &c. ... Most of which were written first in Greeke and Latine, lately compiled in French, by Henry Van Etten Gent. And now delivered in the English tongue, with the examinations, corrections, and augmentations

Etten, Hendrik

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Mathematicall recreations. Or a collection of sundrie problemes, extracted out of the ancient and moderne philosophers, as secrets in nature, and experiments in arithmeticke, geometrie, cosmographie, horolographie, astronomie, navigation, musicke, opticks, architecture, staticke, machanicks, chimestrie, waterworkes, fireworks, &c. ... Most of which were written first in Greeke and Latine, lately compiled in French, by Henry Van Etten Gent. And now delivered in the English tongue, with the examinations, corrections, and augmentations

Additional title:

Récréation mathématicque

Contributors:

Etten, Hendrik (author) / Leurechon, Jean / Malthus, Francis / Oughtred, William

Published in:

Early English Books Online / EEBO

Publication date :

1633

Size :

1 Online-Ressource ([44], 285, 285-286, [5] p)

Remarks:

With an additional title page, engraved, preceded by a letterpress explanation, and a final license leaf
Identified as STC 15530 on UMI microfilm
Reproduction of the original in the British Library
The translation is sometimes attributed to Francis Malthus or, wrongly, to William Oughtred
A translation of: Récréation mathématicque
Sometimes attributed to Jean Leurechon
STC (2nd ed.), 10558.5

Type of media :

Book

Type of material :

Electronic Resource

Language :

English

Keywords :

Fireworks , Science , Scientific recreations