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Period 17th century

Subject Terms Geometry -- Early works to 1800.

1. A new-naturalized work of a learned stranger, or, An exquisite tutor powerfull to benefit the publick : and convey unto English men, especially architects and artificers of all sorts : that is, masons, carpenters, joyners, glasiers, bricklayers, plaisterers, painters, and all that live by hammer and hand : necessary, certaine, and most ready helps of geometrie, which is the first degree of all good art ...

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Date:: 1657
Physical Description:: [2], 11 [i.e. 14] p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Mellificium mensionis, or, The marrow of measuring : wherein a new and ready way is shewn how to measure glazing, painting, plastering, masonry, joyners, carpenters, and bricklayers works : as also the measuring of land and all other superfices and solids, by vulgar arithmetick, without reducing the intergers into the least denomination : giving the content of any superfices or solid, consisting of feet, inches, and parts of inches, in a fourth part of the time and labour required by the usual way in vulgar arithmetic : together with some choice principles and problems of geometry conducing thereto : the whole treatise being comprized in six books and illustrated with copper cuts : an account whereof is given in the epistle to the reader : the like not heretofore published / by Venterus Mandey.

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Creator:: Mandey, Venterus
Date:: 1682
Physical Description:: [26], 376, [2] p., [12] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Neue und gründliche mathematische Friedens- und Kriegs-Schule : worinnen der Kern und die nothwendigsten Stücke der sechs nachfolgenden Wissenschafften, als Geometriae theoreticae, der Erdmess-Kunst. Architecturae civilis, der bürgerlichen Bau-Kunst. Architecturae militaris, der Fortification oder Kriegs-Bau-Kunst. Artis tormentariae, der Artillerie oder Büchsen-Meisteren. Pyrotechniae damnosae, des Ernst-Feuer-Wercks. Pyrotechniae jucundae, des Lust-Feuer-Wercks / aus vielen, sowol alten, als neuen berühmten und bewährten Autoren zu jedermanns nutzlichen Gebrauch, mit behörigen Figuren, fürtzlich, ordenlich und deutlich aufgesetzet und zusammen getragen durch Johann Sebastian Grubern, Majorn.

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Creator:: Gruber, Johann Sebastian
Date:: An. 1697
Physical Description:: [14], 94, [4], 97-250, [2], 251-503, [3], 515-742 p., VI, 8, XVI, XXX, XIII, IV, XVI leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Paradossi per pratticare la prospettiua senza saperla : fiori, per facilitare l'intelligenza, frutti, per non operare alla cieca : cognitioni necessarie à pittori, scultori, architetti, ed à qualunque si diletta di disegno / dat' in luce da Giulio Troili da Spinlamberto detto Paradosso, pittore dell'illustriss. Senato di Bologna.

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Creator:: Troili, Giulio, 1613–1685
Date:: 1683
Physical Description:: [8], 120; [4], 64 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts