Mathematicall recreations : or a collection of many problemes extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers, as secrets and experiments in arithmetick, geometry, cosmographie, horologiographie, astronomie, navigation, musick, opticks, architecture, statick, mechanicks, chemistry, water-works, fire-works etc., not vulgarly manifest till now / written first in Greek and Latin, lately compil'd in French by Henry Van Etten, and now in English with the examinations and augmentations of divers modern mathematicians ; whereunto is added The description and use of the generall horologicall ring, and the double horizontal diall, invented and written by William Oughtred.
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