John Blagrave, The Mathematical Jewel (1585)
Date
1585
Author
John
Blagrave
Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
The Mathematical Iewel, Shewing the making, and most excellent vse of a singuler Instrument so called: in that it performeth with wonderfull dexteritie, whatsoeuer is to be done, either by Quadrant, Ship, Circle, Cylinder, Ring, Dyall, Horoscope, Astrolabe, Sphere, Globe, or any such like heretofore deuised: yea or by most Tables commonly extant: and that generally to all places from Pole to Pole
Dedicated to
Publication place
London
Publisher
Walter Venge
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- mathematics
- navigation and the sea
Summary
Plentiful logical definitions throughout the book, as in the opening "Of certaine deffinitions geometricall", all indexed by Blagrave in "An Index or Table directing any man vnto such places in this booke where al the termes hereafter following, are defined and expounded. The first number signifying the booke, the second the chapter" (ΒΆ 7r)
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
A1r-B2r
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: A point is a pricke indiuisible or rather imaged, or that hath neither length nor bredth. (a1r)
sample: A point is a pricke indiuisible or rather imaged, or that hath neither length nor bredth. (a1r)
Schafer
1585 B
STC
3119
Facsimiles
Blagrave, John. The Mathematicall Jewell. The English experience, no. 294. Amsterdam and New York: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and Da Capo Press, 1971.
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