William Bourne, The Treasure for Travelers (1578)
Date
1578
Author
William
Bourne
Note: 30/09/2005
Lexicon title
A briefe note, taken out of M. Dees Mathematical Preface that goeth before Euclides Elementes nowe extant in our Inglish tongue, as touching what the Mathematical Sciences are
Book title
A booke called the Treasure for traueilers, deuided into fiue Bookes or partes, contaynyng very necessary matters, for all sortes of Trauailers, eyther by sea or by lande, written by William Bourne
Publication place
London
Printer
Thomas Dawson
Publisher
Thomas Woodcocke
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP (Henry E. Huntington Library 3427)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
mathematics
Extent
***2r-3r; pp. 2-3
Word-group
type: topical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: 1 Mecometrie. Is the measuring of the length anything whatsoeuer.
sample: 1 Mecometrie. Is the measuring of the length anything whatsoeuer.
STC
3432
Facsimiles
Bourne, William. The Treasure for Traveilers: London, 1578 . The English experience, no. 911. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1979.
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Criticisms
Heninger, S. K., Jr. "Tudor Literature of the Physical Sciences." Huntington Library Quarterly 32 (1968-69): 103-33, 249-70.
119.
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