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Geodesy by Language: English
Publication details: Oxford Clarendon Press 1880
Availability: Items available for loan: London (1)Collection, call number: SHELF 177.
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A compleat treatise on perspective in theory and practice; on the true principles of Dr. Brook Taylor. Made Clear, in Theory, by Various Moveable Schemes, and Diagrams; and Reduced to Practice, in the Most Familiar and Intelligent Manner, Shewing How to Delineate All Kinds of Regular Objects, by Rule. The Theory and Projection of Shadows, by Sun-Shine, and by Candle-Light. The Effects of Reflected Light, on Objects; their Reflected Images, on the Surface of Water, and on Polished, Plane Surfaces, in all Positions. The Whole Explicitly Treated; and Illustrated, in a Great Variety of Familiar Examples. in four books. An Elegant Frontispiece, and Forty-Eight Plates. Containing Diagrams, Views, and Original Designs, in Architecture, &c. Neatly Engraved. All Originals; Invented, delineated, and, great part, engraved by the Author. Thomas Malton by
Edition: The second edition, corrected and improved; with large additions Language: English
Publication details: London printed for the author; and sold by Messrs. Robson, in Bond-Street; Becket, Adelphi, Strand; Taylor, near Great Turn-Stile, Holborn; Dilly, in the Poultry; and by the author, No. 56, Poland-Street, Oxford Road, near the Pantheon MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (2)Collection, call number: FOLIO 1778 MALTON, ...
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The gentleman and tradesman's compleat assistant Or, The whole art of measuring and estimating, made easy. In three parts. Part I. Contains, the names and exact prices of all artificers work in general, relating to building, viz. such as bricklakers, carpenters, joiners, carvers, plaisterers, painters, masons, plumbers, glaziers, slaters, paviours, smiths, &c. Part II. Contains, the method of squaring dimensions, or measuring the said artificers works at large, thro' all their various branches, both by cross multiplication and inspectionary tables, to the extent of an hundred feet square, including tables, which shew the number of squares, square yards, and also the square root of any number of feet, &c. whatsoever required. Part III. Contains geometrical definitions of lines, angles, &c. with the most useful and necessary problems, or the rudiments of practical geometry, mensuration of superficies, &c. To which is added, an appendix, containing a plan and elevation of a house, with the dimensions accurately figured of the true proportioning the several stories, and the members thereto belonging; with a sketch of some very good mouldings, together with several useful tables, viz. The scantling of timber, annuities upon lives, and the purchasing and valuing of freehold and leasehold estates. Likewise, a table shewing how much in length of any board, plank, pane of glass, pavement, or the like, makes a foot square; the breadth thereof being given. The whole made perfectly easy and intelligible to the meanest capacity. Illustrated with copper-plates. By J. Leadbeater, and assistants. by
Edition: The third edition Language: English
Publication details: London Printed for A. Webley, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane; and W. Todd, in Adam and Eve Court, near Wells-Street, Oxford Road 1770
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: OCTAVO 1770 LEADBEATER.
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The natural history of Cornwall The air, climate, waters, rivers, lakes, sea and tides; of the stones, semimetals, Metals, Tin, and the manner of mining; The Constitution of the Stannaries; Iron, Copper, Silver, Lead, and Gold, found in Cornwall. Vegetables, Rare Birds, Fishes, Shells, Reptiles, and Quadrupeds: of the inhabitants, Their Manners, Customs, Plays or Interludes, Exercises, and Festivals; the Cornish Language, Trade, Tenures, and Arts. Illustrated with a new sheet map of the country, and twenty-eight folio copper-plates from Original Drawings taken on the Spot. By William Borlase, A. M. F. R. S. Rector of Ludgvan, and Author of the Antiquities of Cornwall by Language: English
Publication details: Oxford printed for the author; by W. Jackson: sold by W. Sandby, at the Ship in Fleet-Street London; and the booksellers of Oxford MDCCLVIII. [1758]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: FOLIO 1758 BORLASE.
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Observations on the antiquities historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall Consisting of several essays on the first inhabitants, Druid-Superstition, customs, And Remains of the Most Remote Antiquity, In Britain, and the British Isles: Exemplify'd and prov'd by Monuments now Extant in Cornwall and the Scilly Islands, Faithfully drawn on the Spot, and Engrav'd according to their Scales annex'd. With A Summary Of The Religious, Civil, and Military State of Cornwall before the Norman Conquest; Illustrated by the Plans and Elevations of several Ancient Castles, An Eastern View of the Monastery and Site of St. Michael's Mount: and a vocabulary of the Cornu-British language. By William Borlase, A. M. F. R. S. Rector of Ludgvan by Language: English
Publication details: Oxford printed by W. Jackson, in the High-Street MDCCLIV. [1754]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: FOLIO 1754 BORLASE.
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Pleasure with profit consisting of recreations of divers kinds, viz. numerical, geometrical, mechanical, statical, astronomical, horometrical, cryptographical, magnetical, automatical, chymical, and historical. Published to recreate ingenious spirits; and to induce them to make farther scrutiny into these (and the like) sublime sciences. And to divert them from following such vices, to which youth (in this age) are so much inclin'd. By William Leybourn, philomathes. To this work is also annext, A treatise of algebra, according to the late improvements, applied to numerical questions and geometry; with a new series for the speedy extraction of roots; as also a converging series for all manner of adsected equations. By R. Sault, master of the mathematick school in Adam's-Court, in Broadstreet, near the Royal Exchange, London by Language: English
Publication details: London printed for Richard Baldwin, and John Dunton; near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane: and at the Raven in the Poultrey 1694
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: FOLIO 1694 LEYBOURN.
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A treatise of algebra, both historical and practical Shewing, the original, progress, and advancement thereof, from time to time; and by what steps it hath attained to the heighth at which now it is. With some additional treatises, I. Of the cono-cuneus; being a body representing in part a conus, in part a cuneus. II. Of angular sections; and other things relating there-unto, and to trigonometry. III. Of the angle of contact; with other things appertaining to the composition of magnitudes, the inceptives of magnitudes, and the composition of motions, with the results thereof. IV. Of combinations, alternations, and aliquot parts. By John Wallis, D.D. Professor of geometry in the University of Oxford; and a member of the Royal Society, London by Language: English
Publication details: London printed by John Playford, for Richard Davis, bookseller, in the University of Oxford M. DC. LXXXV. [1685]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (1)Collection, call number: FOLIO 1685 WALLIS.
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The English atlas. ... Containing a description of the places next the North-Pole as also of Muscovy, Poland, Sweeden, Denmark, and their several dependances. With a general introduction to geography, and a large index, containing the longitudes and latitudes of all the particular places, thereby directing the reader to find them readily in the several maps by Language: English
Publication details: Oxford [Oxfordshire] printed at the Theater, for Moses Pitt at the Angel in St. Pauls-Church-Yard, London MDCLXXX. [1680]
Availability: Items available for loan: Historic collection (4)Collection, call number: ATLAS 1680 PITT VOL. 1, ...
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