John Babington, A short treatise of geometrie (1635)

Date

1635

Author

John Babington

Book title

A short treatise of geometrie: in which are contained sundry definitions and problemes, for the mensuration of superficies and solids, as also the use of the quadrat and quadrant in measuring of altitudes, latitudes and profundities, with sundry mechanicall wayes for performing the same. : Vnto which are adjoyned certaine tables, wherein the square root is extracted to 25000, and the cubick root to 10000 latus, only by ocular inspection. / Written by John Babington, gunner and student in the mathematicks

Publication place

London

Printer

Thomas Harper

Publisher

Ralph Mab

Text type

printed book

Genre

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

Subject area

mathematics

Summary

See definitions for "geometry", "point", "right line", "crooked line", "superfice", "sollide", "angle", "right angle", "oblique angle", "obtuse or blunt angle", "circle", "semicircle", "cord", "arch", "triangle", "right-angled triangle", "acute angled triangle", "isoscheles", "schalennum", "rombus", "romboides", "trapezium", "polligons", "pentagons", "hexagons", and "quadrant" (a1r-2v)

Language

headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English

Extent

A1r-2v (pp. 1-4)

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword

STC

1100

Facsimiles

Babington, John. Pyrotechnia, or, Artificiall Fire Works. The English experience, no. 295. Amsterdam and New York: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and Da Capo Press, 1971. view record