Briggs (Henry): Trigonometria Britannica sive de Doctrina Triangulorum libri duo. Quorum prior continent Constructionem Canonis Sinuum Tangentium & Secantium ... Posterior verò usum sive Applicatione, Canonis in Resolutione Triangulorum tam Planorum quam Sphaericorum e Geometris fundamentis ... ab Henrico Gellibrand, Gouda, excudebat Petrus Rammasenius, 1633, folio, first edition, with half title, woodcut diagrams (half title spotted, some browning, contemporary calf-backed boards (rather worn). [Brunet I, 1258; Honeyman 506]

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Briggs (Henry): Trigonometria Britannica sive de Doctrina Triangulorum libri duo. Quorum prior continent Constructionem Canonis Sinuum Tangentium & Secantium ... Posterior verò usum sive Applicatione, Canonis in Resolutione Triangulorum tam Planorum quam Sphaericorum e Geometris fundamentis ... ab Henrico Gellibrand, Gouda, excudebat Petrus Rammasenius, 1633, folio, first edition, with half title, woodcut diagrams (half title spotted, some browning, contemporary calf-backed boards (rather worn). [Brunet I, 1258; Honeyman 506]

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The first complete trigonometrical tables, finished by Gellibrand after Briggs's death in 1630.

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