Digges, Leonard, -approximately 1559
Digges, Leonard, -1571 ?
Leonard Digges British mathematician
Digges, Leonard, d. ca. 1559
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Works
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An arithmeticall militare treatise, 1579: | |
A booke named Tectonicon : briefly shewing the exact measuring and spedie reckoning all maner of land, squares, timber, stone, steeples, pillers, globes, &c. : further, declaring the perfect making and large vse of the carpenters ruler, conteining a quadrant geometricall, comprehending also the rare vse of the squire : and in the end a little treatise adioyning, opening the composition and appliancie of an instrument called the profitable staffe : with other things pleasant and necessarie, most conducible for surueyors, landmeaters, ioyners, carpenters, and masons | |
A geometrical practical treatize named Pantometria : diuided into three bookes, longimetra, planimetra, and stereometria : containing rules manifolde for mensuration of all lines, superficies and solides, with sundrie strange conclusions both by instrument and without, and also by glasses to set forth the true description or exact platte of an whole region | |
Pantometria | |
prognostication everlastinge of righte good effecte | |
The rape of Proserpine | |
Stratioticos | |
Tectonicon | |
The theodelitus and topographical instrument of Leonard Digges of University College, Oxford. Described by his son Thomas Digges in 1571. Reprinted from Longimetra, the fyrst booke of Pantometria. |