Thomas Urquhart, The Trissotetras (1645)

Date

1645

Author

Thomas Urchard(alternate name for Thomas Urquhart ) Note: 15/10/2005

Lexicon title

Definitions a Lexicidion of some of the hardest words that occurre in the discourse of this institution Trigonometricall

Book title

The Trissotetras: Or, A Most Exquisite Table For Resolving all manner of Triangles, whether Plaine or Sphericall, Rectangular or Obliquangular, with greater facility, then ever hitherto hath been practised. Most necessary for all such as would attaine to the exact knowledge of Fortification, Dyaling, Navigation, Surveying, Architecture, the Art of Shadowing, taking of Heights, and Distances, the use of both the Globes, Perspective, the skill of making the Maps, the Theory of the Planets, the calculating of their motions, and of all other Astronomicall computations whatsoever. Now lately invented, and perfected, explained, commented on, and with all possible brevity, and perspicuity, in the hiddest, and most re-searched mysteries, from the very first grounds of the science it selfe, proved, and convincingly demonstrated

Publication place

London

Printer

James Young

Transcription source

45:E.273[9] Thomason Tracts (British Library)

Text type

printed book

Genre

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

Subject area

mathematics

Language

headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English

Extent

2-3 (B1v-B2r); 88-108

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: Directory, is that which pointeth out the Moods dependent on an Axiome. (p. 95)