James Moxon, Mathematical Dictionary (1679)
Date
1679
Book title
Mathematicks made Easie: Or, a Mathematical Dictionary, Explaining The Terms of Art, and Difficult Phrases used in Arithmetick, Geometry, Astronomy, Astrology, and other Mathematical Sciences. Wherein the true Meaning of the Word is Rendred, the Nature of Things signified Discussed, and (where Need requires) Illustrated with apt Figures and Diagrams. With an Appendix, exactly containing the Quantities of all sorts of Weights and Measures: The Characters and Meaning of the Marks, Symbols, or Abreviations commonly used in Algebra. And sundry other Observables. By Joseph Moxon, a Member of the Royal Society, and Hydrographer to the King's most Excellent Majesty
Publication place
London
Publisher
Joseph Moxon
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP transcript
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
mathematics
Summary
Father of James Moxon, the engraver
Language
headwords: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: ABscission [or cutting off] of Light, from the Latin word Abscindo, to cut from, is a term in Astrology, and signifies a weakning of a Planet, which happens when three Planets are within the bounds of their Orbs, and the middlemost is a weighty Planet; to which another lighter, being in fewer degrees of the Sign, applies; and the third being in more degrees, separates from it: But before the first, moving Direct, comes to be corporally joyned with the said ponderous Planet, the third becoming in the mean time Retrograde, does thereby come up before it to the said middle Planet: Then is the third said to cut off the light of the first. It may likewise happen another way, that is, when the middle Planet applies to a conjunction with the last; but the first being lighter, (that is, more swift in motion) passes him, and comes first to a conjunction with the Planet which he is tending unto. (p. 1)
sample: ABscission [or cutting off] of Light, from the Latin word Abscindo, to cut from, is a term in Astrology, and signifies a weakning of a Planet, which happens when three Planets are within the bounds of their Orbs, and the middlemost is a weighty Planet; to which another lighter, being in fewer degrees of the Sign, applies; and the third being in more degrees, separates from it: But before the first, moving Direct, comes to be corporally joyned with the said ponderous Planet, the third becoming in the mean time Retrograde, does thereby come up before it to the said middle Planet: Then is the third said to cut off the light of the first. It may likewise happen another way, that is, when the middle Planet applies to a conjunction with the last; but the first being lighter, (that is, more swift in motion) passes him, and comes first to a conjunction with the Planet which he is tending unto. (p. 1)
Wing
M3006
Other editions
1692: Wing M3007 (corrected by H. Coley);
1700: Wing M3008
1700: Wing M3008
Criticisms
Osselton, N. E. "English Specialized Lexicography in the Late Middle Ages and in the Renaissance." Fachsprachen. Languages for Special Purposes. Eds. L. Hoffman and others. 2 vols. Vol. II. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1998. 2458-65.
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Bryden, D. J. "A 1701 Dictionary of Mathematical Instruments." Making Instruments Count. Eds. R. G. W. Anderson, J. A. Bennett, and W. F. Ryan. Aldershot: Valiorum, 1993. 365-82. view record
Bryden, D. J. "A 1701 Dictionary of Mathematical Instruments." Making Instruments Count. Eds. R. G. W. Anderson, J. A. Bennett, and W. F. Ryan. Aldershot: Valiorum, 1993. 365-82. view record
