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Details of all the small tools needed for technical tasks,
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This review is from: A Treatise of Mathematical Instruments (Paperback)
A Treatise of Mathematical Instruments contains a complete description of a range of tools that are useful in mathematics, surveying, architecture, navigation, drafting, gunnery, physics, and illustration. It covers the sector (a form of calculator that predates the slide rule), the gunner's calipers, the proportional compasses, and a variety of lesser instruments.Examples show how to use all of the instruments, with extensive details on architectural drawing, plane geoemtry, spherical trigonometry, unit conversion, surveying, perspective drawing, and ship's guns (cannons and mortars). 12 plates of figures illustrate and clarify the text. Anyone who has ever drafted a plan or drawing by hand or recalls having used a slide rule will be interested in this book. Those who has only used electronic devices will learn something new. Additionally, a wealth of historical details are revealed through the extensive figures and the text. Modern notes include a biography of the author John Robertson, an explanation of some of the notation used in the book, and a brief commentary and history on mathematical methods, surveying, navigation, and architecture.
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The prospective buyer must be aware that this book is not so much about mathematical instruments as about how to use them in various human activities, architecture, naval gunnery, art , map making etc.
The instruments explained are the ruler, compass and gunner's callipers; there are very few illustrations. It is a fac-simile of the original edition, which can be awkward to read with its strange letters "s" and antiquated terminology. I probably would not have bought the book had I known this, and that the book is available for free download on [...].
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Good for it's type,
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This is a good book, well produced, but remember that it is a reporing of a book from the turn of the last century; the cover is a lot more recent.
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CASES of Mathematical Instruments are of various sorts and sizes; and frequently consist of such articles only as suit the fancy or occasion of the persons who buy them: See the plate fronting the title page: The smallest collection put into a case, commonly consists of, I. A flat ruler or plane scale, having scales of equal parts on it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
primary divifions, fame fcale, defcribe arcs, fquare root, half fum, fpherical trigonometry, thefe divifions, fecond term, thefe diftances, whofe diameter, fpecific gravity, firft term, feveral divifions, fpecific gravities, thefe numbers, thofe degrees, trunnion hole, firft edition, left hand towards the right, upper tangents, thefe lines, fecond edition, lower tangents, right hand towards the left, fame proportion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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CASES of Mathematical Instruments are of various sorts and sizes; and frequently consist of such articles only as suit the fancy or occasion of the persons who buy them: See the plate fronting the title page: The smallest collection put into a case, commonly consists of, I. A flat ruler or plane scale, having scales of equal parts on it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
primary divifions, fame fcale, defcribe arcs, fquare root, half fum, fpherical trigonometry, thefe divifions, fecond term, thefe diftances, whofe diameter, fpecific gravity, firft term, feveral divifions, fpecific gravities, thefe numbers, thofe degrees, trunnion hole, firft edition, left hand towards the right, upper tangents, thefe lines, fecond edition, lower tangents, right hand towards the left, fame proportion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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