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Bernard, Edward Bernegger, Matthias
Pagination: pp. [16], 261, [83]
Collation: § 4 §§ 4 A–Z 4 2A–2U 4
Size: 180x110 mm
Bernard was a Fellow of St. John’s College Oxford,
where he had earlier been a scholarship student and an
expert in weights and measures. He is known to have
created star tables that were published in Hooke’s
Philosophical Collections in 1684 and was well enough
thought of to be appointed as Christopher Wren’s
successor to the Savilian chair of astronomy in 1673. He
was a keen collector of ancient manuscripts and spoke
many oriental languages.
This work is an enlarged and amended version of a letter
prefixed to Dr. Pocock’s Commentary on Hosea, 1685.
It discusses the numerical systems of several different
civilizations, both ancient and of his own day, and it
incorporates material from European, Far Eastern,
Middle Eastern and African sources. The typesetting
must have been problematic because of the numerous
instances of Hebrew, Arabic, Greek and other alphabets.
Illustrations available:
Title page
System of numerals
Chinese table
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B 141
Bernecker, C. (1760–a.1778)
The Birmingham ready calculator; shewing in twenty
tables, the sums necessary, from one shilling to fifty
pounds, to produce real profits, from 2½ to 50 per cent.
on prime cost; after allowing discounts from 2½ to 50
per cent. on the selling prices.
Year: 1778
Place: Birmingham
Publisher: Printed by Pearson and Rollason; and sold by R.
Baldwin
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Binding: contemporary marbled boards; rebacked
Pagination: pp. iv, 140
Collation: A 2 B–S 4 T 2
Size: 209x125 mm
This is a ready reckoner for financial affairs. Little seems
to be known about the author.
Illustrations available:
Title page
Page from the tables
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Bernegger, Matthias (1582–1640)
Manuale Mathematicum, darinn begriffen. Die
Tabulae Sinuum, Tangentium, Secantium: sowol
die Quadrat- und Cubictafel; sambt gründlichem
unterricht wie solche nützlich zugebrauchen. Allen Baw
un[d] Kriegsverständigen, Feldmessern und andern
Kunstliebenden hiebevor in Teutsche Sprach an tag
geben, An jetzo aber wider ubersehe[n], und auffs New
in truck gegeben …
Year: 1619
Place: Strasbourg
Publisher: Anton Bertram for Paul Ledertz
Edition: 1st (German)
Language: German
Binding: contemporary vellum; title cropped at bottom with
no loss
Pagination: pp. [8], 64, [184], [94], [26]
Collation: )( 4 A–D 8 A–L 8 M 4 N–T 8 V 4
Size: 156x94 mm
Reference: Pogg Vol. I, p. 155
Matthias Bernegger was a professor of mathematics
and rhetoric at the University of Strasbourg. He is
best known for his unauthorized 1612 translation of
Galileo’s work on the sector (see entry for Galilei,
Galileo [Bernegger, Matthias, translator]; Tractatus de
proportionum instrumento, quod merito compendium
universæ geometriæ dixeris, 1635), to which he added a
set of notes that almost doubled the size of the text. The
notes are a description of the construction of the sector,
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