Practical geometry. Or, A new and easy method of treating that art. Whereby the practice of it is render'd plain and familiar, and the student is directed in the most easy manner thro' the several parts and progressions of it. Translated from the French of Monsieur S. Le Clerc. The fourth edition. Illustrated with eighty copper-plates. Wherein, besides the several geometrical figures, are contain'd many examples of landskips, pieces of architecture, perspective, draughts of figures, ruins, &c
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- Practical geometry. Or, A new and easy method of treating that art. Whereby the practice of it is render'd plain and familiar, and the student is directed in the most easy manner thro' the several parts and progressions of it. Translated from the French of Monsieur S. Le Clerc. The fourth edition. Illustrated with eighty copper-plates. Wherein, besides the several geometrical figures, are contain'd many examples of landskips, pieces of architecture, perspective, draughts of figures, ruins, &c
- Pratique de la geometrie. English. 1764
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London : printed for John Bowles, at the Black Horse, in Cornhill, and Carington Bowles, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, MDCCLXIV. [1764]
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- 1764
- ESTC No.
- N72320
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- 52106
- Description
- [2], 160, 171-195, [7] p. : ill. (engr.) ; 8°.
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- Title page is in red and black
First English edition: 1671. Another 'fourth edition' was printed in 1742
The text contains 83 engraved diagrams illustrating geometrical figures, adorned with decorative borders, landscapes and staffage.
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