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
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.
Rabdologiæ, seu Numerationis per virgulas libri duo: cum appendice de expeditissimo multiplicationis promptuario. Quibus accessit & arithmeticæ localis liber vnus. Authore & inventore Ioanne Nepero, Barone Merchistonii, &c. Scoto.
Lampas: or, Descriptions of some mechanical improvements of lamps & vvaterpoises. Together with some other physical and mechanical discoveries. Made by Robert Hooke, Fellow of the Royal Society.
Lectures de potentia restitutiva, or Of spring explaining the power of springing bodies. To which are added some collections viz. A description of Dr. Pappins wind-fountain and force-pump. Mr. Young’s observation concerning natural fountains. Some other considerations concerning that subject. Captain Sturmy’s remarks of a subterraneous cave and cistern. Mr. G.T. observations made on the Pike of Teneriff, 1674. Some reflections and conjectures occasioned thereupon. A relation of a late eruption in the Isle of Palma. By Robert Hooke. S.R.S.
The longitude found: or, A treatise shewing an easie and speedy way, as well by night as by day, to find the longitude, having but the latitude of the place, and the inclination of the magnetical inclinatorie needle. By Henry Bond Senior, teacher of navigation, and other parts of the Mathematicks, in Store-house yard in Ratcliff. Printed by the Kings Majesties special command.
