A new systeme of the mathematicks: containing I. Arithmetick ... II. Practical geometry, together with the first six books of Euclid's Elements, as also the eleventh and twelfth, symbolically demonstrated. III. Trigonometry ... IV. Cosmography ... V. Navigation ... VI. The doctrine of the sphere ... VII. Astronomical tables ... logarithms ... sines and tangents ... VIII. A new geography / Composed by Sir Jonas Moore ... and designed for the use of the Royal Foundation of the Mathematical School in Christ-Hospital.

  • Moore, Jonas, Sir, 1617-1679
Date:
1681
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

London : Printed by A. Godbid and J. Playford, for Robert Scott, 1681.

Physical description

2 volumes : add. engr. title page, title page in red & black, engr. illustrations, folded maps, plates (most folded), tables, engr. diagrams ; (4to)

Contributors

Notes

"By His Majesty's special command"
Conceived and in part written by Moore; sections on algebra, Euclid, and navigation written by P. Perkins; astronomical tables and "The doctrine of the sphere" by J. Flamsteed; "A new geography" in part by E. Halley; the whole edited posthumously by W. Hanway and J. Potenger
Some parts have special title pages, dated 1680
Added illustrated t.p., engr., in v. 1
Copy 1 Vol. 2 Note: Signature of Francis Fulford dated 1682 on flyleaf of vol. ii, and his bookplate, 1699.

References note

Wing M2
ESTC R30526
Wing (2nd ed.), M2579

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  • Vol. 1

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    EPB/B/37376.v1

  • Vol. 2

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    EPB/B/37376.v2

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