Miscellanies: or, mathematical lucubrations, of Mr. Samuel Foster : sometime publike professor of astronomie in Gresham Colledge in London. Published, and many of them translated into English, by the care and industry of John Twysden. C.L.M.D. Whereunto he hath annexed some things of his own. The catalogue of all which the following page will shew.
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Miscellanies: or, mathematical lucubrations, of Mr. Samuel Foster : sometime publike professor of astronomie in Gresham Colledge in London. Published, and many of them translated into English, by the care and industry of John Twysden. C.L.M.D. Whereunto he hath annexed some things of his own. The catalogue of all which the following page will shew.
Created/published
London : Printed, by R. & W. Leybourn. And are to be sold in St. Paul's Church-yard, the Bible upon Ludgate-hill, and at the Middle-Temple-gate in Fleetstreet, M. DC. LIX. [1659]
Description
[16], 27, [1], 4, 4, 48, 20, 8, 23, [1], 36, 4, 8, 4, 17, [1], 26, 40, 16, [2], 10, 2-6, [1], 10, 7, [1] p., [10] leaves of plates (5 folded) : ill. ; (fol.)
Associated name
Foster, Samuel, -1652, author.
Twysden, John, 1607-1688.
Twysden, John, 1607-1688.
Note
With parallel Latin and English text.
With facing title page in Latin: Miscellanea: sive lucubrationes mathematicae. Samuelis Foster, olim Londini in Collegio Greshamensi astronomiae professoris publicae.
With facing title page in Latin: Miscellanea: sive lucubrationes mathematicae. Samuelis Foster, olim Londini in Collegio Greshamensi astronomiae professoris publicae.
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), F1634
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R233512
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R233512
Genre/form
Annotations.
Prices (Provenance)
Prices (Provenance)
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
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F1634 (folio)
Folger-specific note
Extensive astronomical and mathematical manuscript notes; see especially: front endpapers; "Problematum quorundum" etc., pp. 14-36; and folding plate in "Short treatise of fortifications"; Appendix, p. 3.; and back endpapers. Shelfmark on front paste-down: "a96", and label: "W2". Provenance: inscribed on English t.p.: "Wm Price"
Folger accession
134773