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Title: Trignometry made easy & short: the whole designe being to illustrate that most excellent doctrine of the Lord Neiper, called the Catholick proposition; so usefull in all kinds of sphericall triangles as well as oblique at right angles /by John Partridge.
Creator: Partridge, John, 1644-1715.
Contributor: Bennet, Francis, dedicatee.
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1677-1701]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript. With a preface written to Francis Bennet of Merefeild, with an acknowledgement to George Fairfax (fl. 1677-1701). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Partridge. All pages ruled.
Scope/Content: Manuscript volume of a treatise on trigonometry by astrologer and almanac writer John Partridge. It appears to a volume he presented to his friend Francis Bennet and it explains the fundamentals of trigonometry, offering examples related to astrology at the end.
Condition: Bound in speckled calf, gold tooled; panelled spine with handwritten label faintly reading "Trigonometry."
Type: text
Form/Genre: Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
Extent: 101 p. :ill. engr. frontispiece ;16 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n17p5p
MS.1989.001
Language: English
eng
Subject: Astrology--Early works to 1800.
Spherical trigonometry--Early works to 1800.
Place: England
Provenance: Black and white "CC" monogrammed booklabel on inside front cover.
Location: CLUW

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