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  Lectures de potentia restitutiva, or, Of spring explaining the power of springing bodies : to which are added some collections viz. a description of Dr. Pappins wind-fountain and force-pump, Mr. Young's observation concerning natural fountains, some other considerations concerning that subject, Captain Sturmy's remarks of a subterraneous cave and cistern, Mr. G.T. observations made on the Pike of Teneriff, 1674, some reflections and conjectures occasioned thereupon, a relation of a late eruption in the Isle of Palma / by Robert Hooke ...
  Date of publication:
  1678
  

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  Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703. ; Papin, Denis, 1647-1714. ; Young, James. ; Sturmy, Samuel, 1633-1669. and G. T.
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  Errata: p. 56. Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library.
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  The mariners magazine, or, Sturmy's mathematical and practical arts containing the description and use of the scale of scales, it being a mathematical ruler, that resolves most mathematical conclusions, and likewise the making and use of the crostaff, quadrant, and the quadrat, nocturnals, and other most useful instruments for all artists and navigators : the art of navigation, resolved geometrically, instrumentally, and by calculation, and by that late excellent invention of logarithms, in the three principal kinds of sailing : with new tables of the longitude and latitude of the most eminent places ... : together with a discourse of the practick part of navigation ..., a new way of surveying land ..., the art of gauging all sorts of vessels ..., the art of dialling by a gnomical scale ... : whereunto is annexed, an abridgment of the penalties and forfeitures, by acts of parliaments appointed, relating to the customs and navigation : also a compendium of fortification, both geometrically and instrumentally / by Capt. Samuel Sturmy.
  Date of publication:
  1669
  

  Author(s):

  Sturmy, Samuel, 1633-1669.
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  Errata: prelim. p. [35]. Added t.p., engraved. "An index": prelm. p. [23]-[31]. Advertisement: prelim. p. [33]-[34]. Some parts have special t.p. "Canon triangulorum logarithmicus" has separate Wing number. Reproduction ...
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