Scope and Contents: Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Practicall geometry -- Decimall arithmetick -- The extraction of the squar roote -- The use of the table of logarithmes -- The use of the line of numbers -- Trigonometry or The doctrine of straite lined triangles with their aplication in measuring of heights distances and intervalls of plases both accessible and inaccessible -- Planimetrie, or The measuring of planes and the surveying of land -- Stereometrie, or The measuring of solids and the gauging of vessells -- Cosmographie with the use of the globes -- Geographie with the use of the mapps dialling.
Contents from fol. 2r.
At foot of fol. 11r: per Adrianum Vlacq.
At head of fol. 102r: Sr. James Moon compendium.
Diagrams and illustrations in ink.
Binding: Late 20th-century full brown skiver.
Origin: Probably written in the United Kingdom; lunar calculations on fol. 64v use the year 1680 as an example and calculations on fol. 66r use the year 1684 as an example.; "Robert Graydon his book" inscribed in ink on fol. 1r and fol. 2r.
From the Collins Collection.
Former shelf-mark: Q. 510.212 M421 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) -- Ms 257.
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