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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59750	Nathanael Brook, stationer at the Angel in Cornhil, to the reader	Sherburne, Edward, Sir, 1618-1702.; Brooke, Nathaniel.; Manilius, Marcus. Astronomicon Appendix.	1675 (1675)	Wing S3222; ESTC R10624	3,707	4

Albeit a Iesuit who writes his Life makes him although a Physician equal in Mathematical Knowledge to Des Cartes On the like Reasons we may conceive we want the many learned Algebraical Works of our famous Countryman Mr. Thomas Harriot and of Mr. Warner into whose Hands they fell who is esteemed by some of the most knowing Persons alive to have been much Superiour to all that ever writ and that equivalent to what of his might have been forty or fifty years since known is not readily to be expected For want of the like Encouragement we have lost that most excellent Piece of the incomparable Vieta his Harmonicon Coeleste as likewise the Remains of Alexander Anderson the Scot as his Conicks Stereometria Solidorum Triangul Sphaeric the want whereof Guldinus much bewails and excites the ingenious to enquire after them On the same Accompt the Remains of Griembergerus as his Conicks Dialling and Projections of the Sphere have not come to light and for the very same Reason the second Tome of Galilaeus in English doth and is like to remain unprinted And for the same Reason the English Tongue is barren of Mathematical and divers other Books in respect of the French or Latin there being little or nothing yet extant of Catoptricks Dioptricks Staticks Mechanicks c. and not much of Perspective and other Kinds the number of Students in these Sciences as yet scarce being sufficient to take off 500 Books or so small an Impression as may give a Bookseller a Prospect of moderate gain in a competent time by his undertaking With the like Remora in France have met the Works of the Excellent Monsieur Fermat viz. Euclidis Porismata restituta his Treatise De Locis Planis Solidis Linearibus ad Superficiem and his Treatise De Contactibus Sphaericis As also the Remains of the much knowing Lalovera as his Geometrical Dictionary sive Explicatio vocum Geometricarum four Books Problematum Illustrium four Books Problematum Physico-Mathematicorum and a Collection of Letters between him and the learned containing the Solution of many Problems of great Curiosity and Difficulty which seeing they are not like to get Printed there they have written over to know if they would be undertaken here promising to send the MS. Copies And having hinted thus much at the Instance of this Ingenious and Industrious Person to the Curious and Generously learned I come now again further to acquaint the Reader that we have more particularly obtained from him an Accompt of two of his own Designs relative to the Sphere and Astronomy The one of Geometrical Dialling whereby reflex Dyalling is rendred Geometrical and reduced to a Method of Calculation so that if a Glass were placed at Random and Lines drawn on the Plain by chance by either Method Points might be found in the said Lines which joyned should be the Hour Lines and the like when the Glass is so placed that the Hour Lines may be drawn in that Part of the Room which is most capable of them and as a Corollary of this Doctrine a Dial for any Latitude may be suddainly divided from a Line of Tangents parallel to any Line proposed and that without any Calculation for the Horary Divisions The other a Treatise of Projections of the Sphere and concerning Spherical Trigonometry in which many extraordinary Cases will be solved those Proportions mentioned before in the Narrative concerning Mr. William Oughtred several wayes more easily demonstrated and all Spherical Triangles measured by a new Method not by him formerly insisted on after the manner of Plain Triangles all which perchance may be handled in some little Tractates concerning the Use of Prints of several other Instruments designed to be cut pasted and varnished as before mentioned viz. the Analemma the double Horizontal Dial the Logarithmical Serpentine Line Prints of Logarithmical Rulers whereof if there be three they may be so placed as to lie still all Day and as fast as the Height of the Sun is given shall find either the Hour or Azimuth universally by bare Inspection