Leonard Digges, Pantometria (1591)
Date
1591
Author
Leonard
Digges
Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
A Geometrical Practical Treatize Named Pantometria, diuided into three Bookes, Longimetria, Planimetria, and Stereometria, containing rules manifolde for mensuration of all Lines, Superficies and Solides: with sundrie strange conclusions both by Instrument and without, and also by Glasses to set forth the true Description or exact Platte of an whole Region. First published by Thomas Digges Esquire, and Dedicated to the Graue, Wise, and Honourable, Sir Nicholas Bacon Knight, Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England. With a Methematicall discourse of the fiue regular Platonicall Solides, and their Metamorphosis into other fiue compound rare Geometricall Bodyes, conteyning an hundred newe Theoremes at least of his owne Inuention, neuer mentioned before by anye other Geometrician. Lately reviewed by the Avthor himselfe, and augmented with sundrie Additions, Diffinitions, Problemes, and rare Theoremes, to open the passage, and prepare away to the vnderstanding of his Treatize of Martiall Pyrotechnie and great Artillerie, hereafter to be published
Publication place
London
Publisher
Abel Jeffes
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- mathematics
- war
Summary
(a) "Elementes of Geometrie, or Diffinitions"; (b) "Certaine diffinitions, taken out of my thirde booke of pyrotechnie militarie, and great artillerie, for explanation of these theoremes ensuing"; (c) "Diffinitions taken out of my fyft booke of martiall pyrotechnye and great artillerie";
(d) "To the fauourable Studious Ingenious Reader touching these Diffinitions and Theoremes, concerning the newe Science of great Artillerie". An expansion of the 1571 edition
Extent
(a) B1r-3r (1-5);
(b) M1 (81-82);
(c) O1r-2v (97-100);
(d) Aa1r-4r (176-81)
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: (a) A Poynt I call which cannot be deuided, whose parte is nothing. (b1r)
(b) A Solide body is that hath lengthe, breadth and thicknesse, bounded or limited with Superficies. (m1r)
(c) The ninth diffinition. About euerie equilater Triangle, Square, or Pentagonum a circle maie be described, preciselie touching euerie of those figures, and that circle shall bee called the circumscribinge or containing circle. (o1v) (d) The 3 Diffinition. This Soule in all principall Peeces of Batterye, is euer a perfect Cylinder, comprehended with a Circuler columne, and two equall Circles; whereof the one I call the Head, the other the Base. (aa1v)
sample: (a) A Poynt I call which cannot be deuided, whose parte is nothing. (b1r)
(b) A Solide body is that hath lengthe, breadth and thicknesse, bounded or limited with Superficies. (m1r)
(c) The ninth diffinition. About euerie equilater Triangle, Square, or Pentagonum a circle maie be described, preciselie touching euerie of those figures, and that circle shall bee called the circumscribinge or containing circle. (o1v) (d) The 3 Diffinition. This Soule in all principall Peeces of Batterye, is euer a perfect Cylinder, comprehended with a Circuler columne, and two equall Circles; whereof the one I call the Head, the other the Base. (aa1v)
Schafer
1591 D [50]
STC
6859
Other editions
See later version by Robert Norton, Of the art of great artillery (London: Edward Allde)
