Robert Norton, A Mathematical Appendix (1604)

Date

1604

Author

Robert Norton Note: 12/10/2005

Lexicon title

Briefe Expositions of the Geometricall and Astronomicall tearmes mentioned in this Treatise

Book title

A Mathematicall Apendix, Containing Many Propositions And Conclusions mathematicall: with necessary obseruations both for Mariners at Sea, and for Cherographers and Surueyors of Land; Together with an Easie perspectiue mechanicall way, to Delineat Sunne dyalls vpon any Wall or Plane giuen, be it direct, inclyning, declyning, or reclyning, from the Horizon, or Meridian, in any Region or Place of knowne Latitude. With other things pleasant and profitable for the weale publick, not heretofore extant in our vulgar: Partly collected out of Foreigne moderne writers, and partlie inuented and practised by the Author

Publication place

London

Printer

Richard Bradock

Publisher

Roger Jackson

Transcription source

Henry E. Huntington Library 223765

Text type

printed book

Genre

Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions

Subject area

• mathematics
• navigation and the sea

Extent

G3r-G4r

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword

Schafer

1604 N

STC

18675

Criticisms

Larkey, Sanford V. "Scientific Glossaries in Sixteenth Century English Books." Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine 5 (1937): 105-14. view record
Clarke, Frances Marguerite. "New Light on Robert Recorde." Isis 8.1, alt. no. 25 (1926): 50-70. view record