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DIGGES, Leonard (c. 1515-c. 1559). A Booke named Tectonicon, briefly shewing the exact measuring and speedie reckoning all maner of land, squares, timber, stone, steeples, pillers, globes, &c. London: Thomas Marsh, 1585. 4° (189 x 132mm). Collation: a2, B-F4; [4], 20ff. Black letter, title woodcut, woodcut geometrical diagrams, illustrations and initials (close cropped with slight loss to diagrams on B2r-B3v, loss to final line on F1v, some consistent loss to shoulder notes, and loss of most folio nos., quires B-C with marginal repair, minor waterstains). Green half morocco by Woolstonecroft, Warrington. Provenance: John Jackson of Warrington (presentation bookplate to Warrington Museum and Library, 1875).
NO COPY OF THIS SIXTH EDITION LOCATED IN THE BRITISH ISLES. Stephen Johnston in ODNB states that 'Digges was an important member of the first generation of English mathematical authors to publish in the vernacular', though his treatise on mensuration was one of only two works published in his lifetime. First appearing in 1556, 'It taught the measurement of land, the calculation of quantities, and the use of various instruments such as the carpenter's rule, the square, and a version of the cross-staff .... Through his promotion of the mathematical arts and his claims for the civic utility of practical geometry, he was a key figure in the establishment of the role of the mathematical practitioner'. STC 6850.7, locating only 2 copies, at Yale and with Kraus.
NO COPY OF THIS SIXTH EDITION LOCATED IN THE BRITISH ISLES. Stephen Johnston in ODNB states that 'Digges was an important member of the first generation of English mathematical authors to publish in the vernacular', though his treatise on mensuration was one of only two works published in his lifetime. First appearing in 1556, 'It taught the measurement of land, the calculation of quantities, and the use of various instruments such as the carpenter's rule, the square, and a version of the cross-staff .... Through his promotion of the mathematical arts and his claims for the civic utility of practical geometry, he was a key figure in the establishment of the role of the mathematical practitioner'. STC 6850.7, locating only 2 copies, at Yale and with Kraus.
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