Document Details Construction and Principal Use of Mathematical Instruments [The...] - Including Thirty Portfolio Illustrations of the Several Instruments:
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- Title: Construction and Principal Use of Mathematical Instruments [The...] - Including Thirty Portfolio Illustrations of the Several Instruments
SubTitle: To which has been added a Supplement Containing a Further Account of Some of the Most Useful Mathematical Instruments as Now Improved - Author: M. Bion, Edmund Stone[Translator]
- Publisher: Astragal Press
Keywords: facsimile historic advanced
Other Keywords: astronomical instruments, surveying mathematical instruments -- Library of Congress: 95-80271
Language: ENG
Notes: 1995 facsimile edition of the 1758 second english edition (substantially improved corrected and expanded, and translated by Edmund Stone) of the 1709 French text by Bion ("Chief Instrment Maker to the French King"), with 30 plates. Describes and gives instructions for use of various instruments including compass, ruler, the protactor, the slide rule, the sector, the microscope, staffs, the theodo
Edition: 1995 Facsimile edition -- Copyright: 1758
Kind: Book
Type: Scientific instrument
Geographic area: Not Geographic
Topic: TheoryGeneral
Organization: NA/other
Pages: 325 -- Height in cm: 31
Print Status: 1 (1 means in print - 2 means out of print)
Entered By: FMM
BHM No: 11373 - Publisher: Astragal Press
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