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Title: Spherical trigonometry: applied in sundry astronomical problems useful in the art of navigation.
Date Created and/or Issued: [17--?]
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.
Scope/Content: Manuscript notebook containing exemplars, explanations and diagrams explicating mathematical and astronomical problems. Likely compiled by an advanced student or a tutor in the mode of early modern ciphering books, this volume is written throughout in a uniform and neat italic hand and includes static diagrams as well as volvelles with moving parts. In addition to spherical trigonometry and navigation, the text also treats more basic algebra.
Condition: Bound in original green vellum with blind rules to covers and gold stamping to spine, with red spine label for title; some damage and wear to hinges.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Exercise books
Volvelles
Extent: [274] pages, bound ;33 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1cg7m
f MS.1969.004
Language: English
eng
Subject: Spherical trigonometry--Early works to 1800.
Mathematics--Problems, exercises, etc.--Specimens.
Algebra--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800.
Place: England
Provenance: "o, P, B," inscribed in 18th or 19th century hand on front paste-down endpaper; "Â£45" inscribed in pencil on front free endpaper, likely by bookseller Francis Edwards.
Location: CLUW

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