A prognostication euerlasting of right good effect, fruitfully augmented by the author, containing plaine, briefe, pleasant, chosen rules to iudge the weather by the sunne, moone, starres, comets, rainbow, thunder, clowdes, with other extraordinary tokens, not omitting the aspects of planets, with a briefe iudgement for euer, of plentie, lacke, sicknes, dearth, warres, &c. opening also many naturall causes worthie to be knowne. To these and other now at the last, are ioyned diuers generall, pleasant tables, with many compendious rules, easie to be had in memorie manifold wayes profitable to all men of vnderstanding. Published by Leonard Digges Gentleman. Lately corrected and augmented by Thomas Digges his sonne.
A booke named Tectonicon, briefly shevving the exact measuring, and speedie reckoning all manner of land, squares, timber, stone, steeples, pillers, globes, &c. Further, declaring the perfect making and large vse of the carpenters ruler, containing a quadrant geometricall: comprehending also the rare vse of the squire. And in the end a little treatise adioyning, opening the composition and appliancie of an instrument, called the profitable staffe. With other things pleasant and necessarie, most conducible for surueyers, landmeaters, ioyners, carpenters and masons. Published by Leonard Digges Gentleman, in the yeere of our Lord, 1556.
A geometrical Practise, named Pantometria, diuided into three bookes, longimetra, planimetra, and stereometria, containing rules manifolde for mensuration of all lines, superficies and solides: with sundry straunge conclusions both by instrument and without, and also by perspectiue glasses, to set forth the true description or exact plat of an whole region: framed by Leonard Digges gentleman, lately finished by Thomas Digges his sonne. Who hathe also thereunto adioyned a mathematicall treatise of the fiue regulare Platonicall bodies, and their Metamorphosis or transformation into fiue other equilater vniforme solides Geometricall, of his owne inuention, hitherto not mentioned of by any geometricians.
The pathvvay to knowledge, containing the first principles of geometrie, as they may mostl aptly bee applied vnto practise, both for vse of instrumentes geometricall, and astonomicall: and also for proiection of plattes in euery kinde and therefore much necessarie for al sortes of men.
An arithmeticall militare treatise, named Stratioticos: compendiously teaching the science of nu[m]bers, as vvell in fractions as integers, and so much of the rules and
An institution trigonometricall. VVherin demonstratively and perspicuously is exhibited the doctrine of the dimension of plane and sphericall triangles after the most exact and compendious way by tables both of sines, tangents, secants; and logarithmes. By Henry Gellibrand professor of astronomy in Gresham Colledge.
The elements of arithmeticke most methodically deliuered. Written in Latine by C. Vrstitius professor of the mathematickes in the Vniuersitie of Basill. And translated by Thomas Hood, Doctor in Physicke, and well-willer of them which delight in the mathematicall sciences.
The grounde of artes: teachinge the worke and practise of arithmetike, both in whole numbres and fractions, after a more easyer and exacter sorte then any like hath hitherto been sette forthe. Made by M. Robert Recorde doctor of physik, and now of late ouerseen and augmented with new and necessary additions.
The principles of arithmetick: with helpfull observations, making the entrance easie, and the practice pleasant: teaching the five ordinary parts of arithmetick, the usuall way: the performance of multiplication and division, onely by addition and subraction: with new an notable abridgments: rules of practice, with extraordinarie helps: and therein, some excellent observations, for the easie casting up of interest. The doctrine of fractions, the foure rules of arithmetick: recreations extraordinary; or the easie performance of (seeming) impossibilities. By William Webster.
