Richard Norwood, Trigonometry (1631)
Date
1631
Author
Richard
Norwood
Note: 12/10/2005
Book title
Trigonometrie. Or, The Doctrine Of Triangles Divided into two Bookes: The first shewing the mensuration of Right lined Triangles: The second of Sphericall: With the grounds and demonstrations thereof. Both performed by that late and excellent invention of Logarithmes, after a more easie and compendious manner, than hath beene formerly taught. Whereunto is annexed, chiefly for the use of seamen, A Treatise of the application thereof in the three principall kindes of sailing. With certaine necessary Tables used in Navigation
Publication place
London
Publisher
William Jones
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
mathematics
Summary
"WEE will not insist upon the definitions and first principles of Geometry, being largely handled by many ..." (b1r), but definitions occur, such as "Logarithmes are numbers, so fitted to proportionall numbers, that themselves retaine equall differences" (b2v)
Extent
B1v-2v
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
STC
18692
Other editions
1634: STC 18693;
1651: N1371;
1656: Wing N1372;
1661: Wing N1373;
1672: Wing N1375;
1678: Wing N1376;
1685: Wing N1377
1651: N1371;
1656: Wing N1372;
1661: Wing N1373;
1672: Wing N1375;
1678: Wing N1376;
1685: Wing N1377
Facsimiles
Norwood, Richard. Trigonometrie; or, The Doctrine of Triangles. The English experience, no. 404. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1971.
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