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compass and a sighting device for determining angles of
elevation. Book 5 contains various proofs of geometric
propositions that might be of use to a surveyor. The final
book is a discussion of how to find square roots and a
table of squares for all integers from 1 to 661.
The publisher is often known as Francesco Franseschi
Sanese because he came from Siena. He is officially
referred to as Francesco di Franseschi to differentiate
him from Francesco Franceschi (without the di), who is
Lucchese, from Lucca.
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Illustrations available:
Title page
Portrait
Colophon
Quadrant with shadow scales
Jacob’s Staff
Astrolabe with shadow scales
Quadrant showing origins of shadow scales
Tables, page 1
Circumferentor
Erwin Tomash Library
Bartoli, Cosimo Barton, William J.
B 110
Bartoli, Cosimo (1503–1572)
Astrolabe, B 109
Del modo di misurare le distantie, le superficie, i corpi,
le piante, le provincie, le prospettive & tutte le altre
cose terrene, che possono occorrere a gli huomini.
Year: 1589
Place: Venice
Publisher: Francesco di Franceschi
Edition: 2nd
Language: Italian
Figures: 2 folding plates plus many woodcuts in the text
Binding: later vellum
Pagination: ff. 145, [3]
Collation: A–S 8 T 4
Size: 214x153 mm
Reference: Rcdi BMI, Vol. I, p. 90
The second edition of this early Italian work on
surveying is, essentially, identical to the first edition of
1564. Two of the large folding plates appear to have been
reengraved, but other illustrations are carried over from
the first edition.
Illustrations available:
Title page
Colophon
B 111
Barton, William J.
B 110
Arithmeticke abreviated. Teaching the art of tennes or
decimals to worke all questions in fractions as whole
numbers, without reduction: An easier and plainer way
than the vulgar. Shewing the use also of Napiers bones,
by which multiplication and division is performed
without charging the memory at all to those that will
make use of them. As also the extracting of the square
and cube roots, with divers applications thereof.
Year: 1634
Place: London
Publisher: James Boler and William Luggard
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Binding: later half morocco over marbled paper boards
Pagination: pp. [8], 140, [2]
Collation: A 4 B–K 8 (- K8 blank)
Size: 140x90 mm
This, published less than twenty years after Napier’s
Rhabdologia (1617), is one of the first arithmetics to
explain the use of Napier’s rods as a method for facilitating
multiplication, division and extraction of roots. Although
translations of Napier’s work had quickly appeared in
German (1618), Italian (1623) and Dutch (1626), with
the exception of a brief mention in an English almanac of
1618, the bones had only been described in English once
before in J. Dansie’s A Mathematicall manuel, London,
1627. Barton provides samples of Napier’s bones and
instructs his readers to either cut them out or make their