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Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: good. First Edition. Green cloth, 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, binding very good, dust jacket with darkened spine, now in a clear wrapper. Lxxxiv., 666 clean and unmarked pp., index, tight. US media mail as quoted at checkout; Priority Mail or International orders will require extra postage. Charles Attwood Digges (1742-1821), a native of Maryland, born to a Catholic family who owned the estate across the river from Mount Vernon. He lived in Lisbon for many years was an intimate of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison. While residing in Lisbon during the American Revolution he promoted the patriot cause, and supported it by supplying the American patriot leaders with information from England and elsewhere, and by being a diplomatic courier for Franklin and others. "Digges reported the news about the progress of the Revolution as received in London, and informed Franklin and Adams about impending motions in Parliament, the state of public opinion regarding the war, and the plans for military movements in the immedate future. As an agent of Franklin's to assist in the distribution of relief for prisoners, he was in continual touch with captured Americans and with those who escaped, and often helped them reach France or Ireland, or return more directly to the United States. Since he circulated freely among British liberals and American sympathizers as well as American Loyalists, his reports on politics and on the political and personal dissensions among American representatives on both sides of the Channel have an autheniticity that gives them historical value." - publisher.

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Hardcover. First Edition. Thick Octavo; G+/G; natural spine with black text; first edition; dust jacket exterior shows modest wear; slight foxing to spine; minor edge wear; cloth has light foxing to spine; front and rear panels clean; mildly splayed boards; exterior text block edges show some foxing; former owner's label to front pastedown; frontispiece; interior clean; illustrated; pp 666. 1354240. FP New Rockville Stock.

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Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condición: Excelente. 1ª Edición. (Historia de la Ciencia. Revolución copernicana. Astronomía). Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1983. Col. El Libro de Bolsillo - 953. Cubiertas originales en rústica ilustrada. Traducción, introducción (1982) y notas de Alberto Elena. 100 p. 6 h. Un par de ilustraciones b/n. 8º menor. Impecable. Primera edición.

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#523.31-32(035.3) 15/16 #521.3(035.3) 15/16 () Alianza Editorial. Encuadernación en tapa Blanda. Nicolaus Copernicus; Thomas Digges; Galileo Galilei. 18x11 cm. Opúsculos sobre el movimiento de la tierraTapa deslucida.Tapa ilustrada. Pags.100.Volúmenes.1. Libro usado.

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LeatherBound. Condición: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 92. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1927 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 92.

Soft Flex Covers w Cloth Spine. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. Illus with b/w Drawings + Charts Ilustrador. Modern reprint, no edition stated. Full title page reads: A Prognostication Euerlasting ( Everlasting ) of Right Good : Effect Fruitfully Augmented by the Author Contayning ( Containing ) Plaine ( Plain ) Briefe ( Brief ) Pleasant Chosen Rules to Judge the Weather By the Sunne ( Sun ) Moone ( Moon ) Starres ( Stars ) Comets Rainbow Thunder Clowdes ( Clouds ) With Other Extraordinary Tokes Not Omitting the Aspects of Planets with Briefe Judgement for euer ( forever ) of Plentie Lacke Sicknes Dearth Warres &c ( Plenty Lack Sickness Death Wars etc) Opening also many Naturall ( Natural ) Causes Worthie ( Worthy ) to be Knowne ( Known ). To thse and other now at the last are joyned ( joined ) diuers ( divers ) generall pleasant Tables, with many compendious Rules, easie to be had in memorie, manifold, wayes profitable to all men of understanding. Published by Leonard Digges Gentleman. Lately corrected augmented by Thomas Digges his sonne ( son ). Paper / Soft cover reprint edition in very good condition, slight wear to edges. Glossy card covers with cloth spine. Archival reprint / replica of original edition. Privately published. Overall good copy of this scarce title. Excellent read. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand. Or would make a great gift for the fan / reader in your life. Limited edition of 150 copies. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Leonard Digges (1520 to1559), father of Thomas Digges, was a well-known English mathematician and surveyor, credited with the inventions of the telescope and theodolite, and a great popularizer of science through his publications in English. In a way, his son followed in his footsteps and was a pivotal player in the popularization of Copernicus's book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. The first publication of many by Leonard Digges was A General Prognostication published in 1553, which became a best-seller as it contained a perpetual calendar, collections of weather lore and a wealth of astronomical material, until then largely only obtainable through books published in Latin or Greek. It was revised in 1555 (the earliest surviving edition) and again in 1556 with the title A Prognostication everlasting. Subsequent editions reprint the text from 1556; editions from 1576 and later include additional material by his son. Title page of Leonard Digges's Pantometria (1591) ; Leonard Digges is also sometimes credited with independently inventing the reflecting, and probably the refracting telescope as part of his need to see accurately over long distances during his surveying works. In the preface to the 1591 Pantometria, (a book on measurement, partially based on his father's notes and observations) Leonard's son Thomas lauded his father's accomplishments. Some of the praise of the son for the father appears to be extravagant exaggeration, while other claims appear more credible. In 1554, Leonard Digges took part in an unsuccessful rebellion led by the Protestant Sir Thomas Wyatt against England's new Catholic Queen Mary who took over the throne in 1553 from her father Henry VIII. Digges was condemned to death, but escaped capital punishment, instead forfeiting all his estates. TEXT IS IN OLD ENGLISH. 112 pages, illustrated with astronomical drawings and charts. Limited edition of 150 copies. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. GOOD; FIRST EDITION; original binding; EX-LIBRARY; worn and soiled covers, bowed inward at the corners; edgewear, chipping and some small stains; bookplate on inside cover; the pages are generally clean and unmarked and the binding is good; Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

TITLE CONTINUED: Exhibited in writing to the Right Honourable Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester a little before the Spanish invasion, in the year 1588. By Thomas Diggs Esq; muster-master general of all her Majesty's forces in the Low-Countries. To which is now added, an account of such stores of war, and other materials as are requisite for the defence of a fort, a train of artillery, and for a magazine belonging to a field army. And also a list of the ships of war, and the charge of them, and the land-forces designed by the Parliament against France, anno 1678. Also a list of the present governors of the garisons of England; and of all the lord lieutenants, and high sheriffs of all those counties adjacent to the coasts. Lastly, the wages of officers and seamen serving in his Majesty's fleet at sea per month. Collected by Thomas Adamson, master-gunner of his Majesty's train of artillery, anno 1673. Pamphlet, small folio, approximately 280 x 185 mm, 11 x 7¼ inches, pages: [4], 1-16, bound in paper wrappers. Title page slightly marked, upper wrapper has small hole repaired on verso, pinhole to lower wrapper, occasional tiny fox spot otherwise a very good copy. ESTC R7897. Thomas Digges was a member of parliament from 1572 and again in 1584. His military career was with the English forces in the Netherlands from 1586 to 1594. The modern state of the Netherlands came into existence with the Treaty of Utrecht in 1579. Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester was named governor-general of the Netherlands in 1586 and Dudley appointed Digges to be master-general of his army to assist him in the campaign. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 4to. Pp. (xiv) 380 (ii). Black letter, some Roman and Italic. Tp with ornamental woodcut, full page woodcut arms of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1532-1588) overleaf, outer edge trimmed. Woodcut floriated initials, ornamental tail pieces. Small woodcut mathematical diagrams, tables and shapes, large fold out diagram of 'The Scale of Pases', another showing a battle formation with soldiers, weapons and figures. Full page armorial woodcut and large printer's device at end. Bookplate of Thomas Francis Fremantle, Lord Cottesloe (1862-1956) on pastedown. C16/C15 printed stubs in Gothic letter. Ms pencil annotations to contents pages with page numbers. Slight age yellowing, light water stain towards outer edge of first few leaves and to final blank, worming to lower blank margin pp. 290-350, a few blank corners torn away. A handsomely bound, good clean copy with generous margins in contemporary calf, gilt ornamental decorative pattern to centre of covers with smaller gilt decorative pattern around, ornamental gilt spine, joints a bit rubbed, small repair to head of spine and corners, some rubbing to edges, case or shelf mark to foredge, aer. Impressive second edition of this important treatise on military mathematics by the father and son mathematicians and scientists, Leonard (c. 1515-1559)  and Thomas Digges (c. 1546-1595). Leonard allegedly invented the theodolite, an instrument which measured angles in order to survey landscapes, as well as an early version of the telescope and he more generally popularised science through his many successful publications. Colin Ronan claims that Leonard was, in fact, the first inventor of the telescope instead of Galileo (Ronan, 'Leonard and Thomas Digges', 1992).  Thomas published the first book on Copernican theory in English, and collaborated with, expanded on and annotated a great deal of his father's works. The men were fascinated with geometry, navigation and mathematics, especially the intersection of these with military and artillery related matters. In January 1554 Leonard Digges took part in the unsuccessful revolt against the marriage of Philip II of Spain with Mary I, led by Protestant Sir Thomas Wyatt, and was convicted and sentenced to death. He was pardoned however, but died a few years later, leaving his young son to the guardianship of John Dee (1527-1608), a Renaissance natural philosopher. Like his father, the younger Digges took an interest in military matters on top of his scholarly research. He was a Muster-Master General for the English forces from 1586-1594 during the war with the Spanish in the Netherlands. This work derives from preliminary notes and research by Leonard, but was compiled and published by Thomas. The Stratioticos was first published in 1579 in three books, of which the first was based on a surviving draft in Leonard's hand. The 1590 edition was expanded by Thomas and is a fine example of military science from this era. The book begins with a short introduction on basic arithmetical principles, taken from notes compiled by Leonard, and then commences with an algebraic sum which calculates the efficient use of a soldier, with examples, as well as an in depth discussion of the differing ranks in an army and the associated good and bad traits of these. Underlying this was the possibility of the Earl of Leicester taking an expedition against the Spanish in the Netherlands. The younger Digges had been advising Leicester on this mission and the book was even given to Leicester to read in manuscript form. A key theme of the work is Digges' insistence on the preparedness of soldiers and military discipline and the qualities of the ideal military leader.  Cockle 25 states "one of the best military books of the time". He also asserts "Digges (junior) criticises Santbech, Ruscelli, and others, who, he says, attempted to write on the science of gunnery, without having knowledge of mathematics." ESTC S109690; Lowndes II 646; Cockle 25. L3435.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. 2nd Edition. Folio. pp. [viii], 152, 151-195, [iii]. [A] B-2C . Roman, Italic and Black letter. Decorative woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces throughout. Fine woodcut mathematical and topographical diagrams and illustrations, including to t-p, depicting the use of geometrical instruments and the process of land-surveying. Large woodcut arms of Sir Nicholas Bacon (the dedicatee, father of Sir Francis Bacon) to verso of t-p, unidentified arms to verso of Cc3, book-labels of Erwin Tomash and Harrison D. Horblit on pastedown. A particularly fine copy, absolutely crisp and clean, with good margins (some deckle edges), in contemporary limp vellum, remains of ties. Second and best edition of Thomas Digges' fundamental mathematical work, revised and expanded from the edition of 1571, and the first description of many important theories and techniques in English. Digges (1546-1595) was the son of the mathematician and surveyor Leonard Digges (1520-1559), inventor of the theodolite and perhaps also of the telescope. Thomas produced revised or augmented editions of several of his father's works. "This edition is essentially identical to the first with two significant additions by Thomas Digges: the Mathematicall discourse of the five Platonicall solides and the first treatment of the science of ballistics in English. Also added to Book I is a short chapter (three leaves) on surveying in mines. Leonard Digges published a small book on practical surveying in 1556, but this more ambitious work was still in manuscript when he died. Thomas, his son, further extended the work and had it published. The early material is essentially that to be found in the works of such authors as Gemma Frisius and Peter Apian (quadrants, astrolabes with shadow scales, etc.). However this book, and his earlier work Tectonicon, are the first descriptions of the application of these instruments written in English. All of the early instruments rely on the use of right-angle triangles in establishing a survey. Digges deals with a different type of survey instrument in a later part of this volume. This is the first description and illustration of the theodolitethe name being coined by Digges in this work. This device consisted of a table with an angle- sighting device mounted above it. . Another intriguing feature of this work is that Digges, in Chapter 21 of the first book, discusses the use of various optical devices and claims that: "ye may by applycation of glasses in due proportion cause any peculiare house, or roume thereof dilate and shew it selfe in as ample fourme as the whole towne firste appeared, so that ye shall descerne any trifle, or read any letter lying there open" Digges senior had obviously been experimenting with a magnifying lens, and it seems very likely that he invented the telescope about a half-century before it was unambiguously described in Holland in 1608. The first book, titled Longimetra, is a treatise on surveying using the quadrant, square and theodolite. The subsequent books, Planimetra and Stereometra, cover plane and solid geometry and their use in the calculation of area and volumeparticularly gauging." Tomash & Williams The Pantometria provides a complete course in practical geometry, from the fundamentals ("A Line is a length without breadth or thicknesse") to the most complex theorems. The work concludes with the first appearance of Digges' work on ballistics, a new addition to the present edition. "He was able, on the basis of his own and his father's experiments, to disprove many commonly held erroneous ideas in ballistics but was not able to develop a mathematical theory of his own. These appendixes constitute the first serious ballistics studies in England" (DSB). A very fine copy of this most important work. ESTC S107357. STC 6859; Cockle 16. Spaulding and Karpinski 49. DSB IV, 97 (attributing the Pantometria to Leonard Digges). Tomash & Williams D54 [This copy]. The Geometry of War 45.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. [INSPIRING SHAKESPEARE?] FIRST EDITION. 4to. pp. [iv], 111, [i]: pi², A-O . Roman letter, some Italic. Small woodcut printer's device on title, floriated woodcut initials, grotesque woodcut head and tail-pieces, typographical ornaments. Light age yellowing, title dusty, chipped at lower outer blank corner, a little dust soiling at margins of first few leaves, minor marginal dust soiling in places, the rare marginal stain. A good copy, with good margins, in modern three-quarter red calf, spine with raised bands, title gilt lettered, all edges yellow. Rare first edition of this important work on the state of the English militia, probably a source for Shakespeares' Coriolanus. "As Digges died in 1595 there was an interval of at least nine years between the writing of 'Paradoxes 1. and II.' and their printing. These are filled with complaints of the dishonesty of officers. Foreign writers, too, were making similar accusations, notably Marcos de Isaba, who, in the 'Cuerpo enfermo de la Milicia Espanola', waxes very bitter on the subject. Both in English and foreign armies, officers, from the commander in chief to the captain of the band, where engaged in defrauding one another and the private soldiers. If the men clamoured for pay, license for pillage quieted them, or, in some cases, a still surer remedy was found; generals when deep in debt to any troops would send them on some desperate service, wherein most of them were sure to perish. Four pages of Paradoxes I are devoted to a comparison between a good and a bad paymaster; and much of Paradox II to another between modern discipline and the discipline of the Greeks and Romans. Digges maintains the former, 'In spite of the late invention of gunpowder,' to be vastly inferior to the latter, and he cites thirty points of difference between the two systems in support of his views. Indeed the English militia had become so inefficient as to make reform imperative. Captains, being paymasters of their own bands, made use of their position to pocket the mens' pay; drill was neglected, and no dependence could be placed on soldiers, who, taken from the lowest class, thought nothing of running from the enemy. Smythe, though an opponent of Digges, corroborates these statements. Digges was a reformer, and certainly a good friend to the private soldier;." Cockle. "In 1604 a volume was published entitled 'Four Paradoxes, or Politique Discourses', containing two essays by Thomas Digges, and two by Dudley Digges, his son, and the stepson of Shakespeare's testamentary overseer. One of Dudley's essays is in praise of the soldiers profession. In the other he argues 'That warre sometimes' is 'less hurtfull and more to be wisht in a well Governd state than peace'. War, he declares, is better than 'luxurious idleness' With this may be compared the dialogue on the advantages of war in Coriolanus IV. v. Digges proceeds to discuss the use of war as a means of curing internal dissensions, his main example being the story of Coriolanus taken directly from North's Plutarch, though with the insertion of one phrase from Livy. we cannot be sure that Shakespeare had read 'Foure Paradoxes', though he might have done so out of neighbourly interest. In Coriolanus he uses the metaphor of breaking out in three places, though his use of it is not confined to this play. Although, therefore, Shakespeare could have developed his conception of the play from Plutarch's lives, Digges may well have contributed to the atmosphere of the play with his praise of the military hero, his claim that the 'discommoditie of our long peace opprest by luxurie' is 'worse farre than warrre', and his retelling of the Coriolanus story as an example of the way foreign wars can be used to cure sedition." Kenneth Muir. 'The Sources of Shakespeare's Plays.' ESTC S109705 STC 6872. Cockle 77.

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[4],16pp. Tables. Folio. Gathered signatures, stitched as issued. Some dust soiling to outer leaves. Small tear in fore-edge of titlepage (text not affected). Else crisp and very good. Untrimmed. In a red cloth folder. This interesting group of military essays and papers was compiled by Thomas Adamson, "Master-Gunner of his Majesty's Train of Artillery," with the hope of awakening his fellow countrymen to the possibility of a French military attack. The whole work is a curious manual of 17th-century military preparedness, with lists of the requirements of a fort, the components needed to equip a train of artillery, and a list of ninety ships of war with respective manpower assigned by Parliament against France. WING D1471. ADAMS & WATER 704a. DNB V, pp.976-78.

Half-Leather. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. Second Edition. Second and best edition of this important Elizabethan work of practical geometry. P [6], 152, 151-195, [3] pp. Missing the first blank which is A1 (pages 1-2). Small folio in handsome 1/2 calf leather with gilt title, etc, to the spine, lovely brown marbled hard boards. From the library of noted photographer Roman Vishniac (1897-1990) , who may have had it rebound. Inside front cover has a large bookplate of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell (1818-1878) , the Scottish historian and noted book collector. On the facing (new) blank are two leather morocco blind-stamped coats of arms of Stirling-Maxwell. The title page has two signatures and dates and dates of 1611 and 1678. Very occasional small neat marginalia in just a few spots and a small ink blot in the margin on 2 pages. Text is otherwise unmarked, there are some humidity stains throughout but no resultant problems. Wonderfully illustrated throughout with maps, geometrical problems, instruments. This is the famous 2nd (known as the"best") edition, enlarged by Digges' son Thomas (1546-1595) , a pupil of John Dee, rendering it an augmented work with substantial new (and still understudied) work on "Mathematicall discourse of the Geometrical solids" and the groundbreaking "Diffinitions and Theoremes concerning the Newe Science of great Artillerie" -- the very first treatment of the science of ballistics in English. There is also an important added section on surveying in mines. The Pantometria is quite notable for its very suggestive early description of a telescope, leading some scholars, including history of science scholar Colin Ronan, to surmise that it was the Digges' -- father and son -- who were the true parents of this landmark invention: "By enabling man to explore the Universe far beyond the range of the naked eye, the telescope is one of the most powerful of all scientific instruments. According to tradition, it was invented in Holland around 1608. There is evidence, however, that it originated more than thirty years earlier, in England, and that the inventors were Leonard and Thomas Digges. There is reason to suppose that it was the latter, and not Galileo, who first turned the telescope to the night sky, observing myriads of stars invisible to the naked eye. He concluded that the Universe was infinite in extent. " [Ronan: Endeavour 1992]As presented in the present book, this idea that the Digges' were the true inventors of the telescope is certainly very compelling: "But marveilous are the conclusions that may be performed by Glasses concave and convex of Circulare and parabolicall formes, using for multiplication of beames sometime the aide of Glasses transparent, which by fraction [refraction] should unite or dissipate the images or figures presented by the reflection of the other. By these kinde of Glasses or rather frames of them, placed in due Angles, yee may not only set out before your eye the littely image of every Towne, Village, etc. And that in as little or great space or place as ye will prescribe, but also augment and dilate any parcel thereof, so that whereas at the first appearance an whole Towne shall present it selfe so small and compact together that ye shall not discerne any difference of streates, ye may by application of Glasses in due proportion cause any peculiare house, or roume thereof dilate and shew it selfe in as ample forme as the whole towne first appeared" [page 28]This clearly appears to be a description of a refracting telescope. It is not surprising that Thomas Digges is purported to have been the first to suggest in print that the universe is infinite. The part of the work originally published in 1571 was on practical applied geometry and contains the 1st description of the theodolite, (a precision surveying instrument used for measuring angles both horizontally and vertically) , by Leonard Digges, who invented both the instrument and the term, along with sections on navigation and pyrotechnics --- one of the earliest works in English using applied mathematics, and furthering the work of Renaissance geographers such as Peter Apian. The Thomas Digges' added sections on angles and the geometric solids (tetrahedron, . Ie pyramid, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron) are very important as well: " a remarkable text, with a range and ambition quite unlike any other English mathematical work published in the 16th century. The Mathematicall Discourse proclaims the value of advanced mathematical study not just in the realm of lofty rhetoric but through the disciplined endeavour of elaborating hundreds of new theorems. There is no evidence that Leonard Digges had grappled with the kind of mathematical material that here engaged his son; we should look instead to John Dee for the origins and motivation of Thomas Digges's efforts. " [Stephen Johnston Museum of the History of Science University of Oxford 1995 paper] English mathematician, natural philosopher, and student of the occult, John Dee, was a great friend of father Leonard Digges, and at his death, "stepped in to act as a father to the young Thomas who received advanced mathematical instruction from Dee. He was to remain a friend of Dee's throughout his life and undertook joint work with him. " This section is followed by Thomas Digges's treatise on ballistics which demonstrated that consistent results with cannon required mathematical knowledge, a seminal work in understanding ballistics. As noted, this was the first such discussion in English. Complete except for the first blank, including the final errata leaf. ESTC S107357. Italic, Roman and Black Letter. A very nice copy of a landmark in the History of Science, in an attractive binding, with quite wonderful provenance. ; Woodcut; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 185 pages.

First edition. "the first serious ballistic studies in England" (DSB). Second and best edition of this important Elizabethan work on practical geometry, in which "for the first time, we have indications of an instrument which we may call a reflecting telescope" (King,The History of the Telescope, p. 29). This second edition contains several appendices by Thomas Digges, not present in the first edition, which constitute "the first serious ballistic studies in England" (DSB). The book also contains the first description and illustration of the theodolite. The first edition is an extremely rare book no copy has sold at auction since the Kenney copy in 1966 (and that copy was defective). "This edition is essentially identical to the first with two significant additions by Thomas Digges: the 'Mathematicall discourse of the five Platonicall solid' and the first treatment of the science of ballistics in English. Also added to Book I is a short chapter (three leaves) on surveying in mines The early material is essentially that to be found in the works of such authors as Gemma Frisius and Peter Apian (quadrants, astrolabes with shadow scales, etc.). However, this book, and his earlier work Tectonicon, are the first descriptions of the application of these instruments written in English. All of the early instruments rely on the use of right-angle triangles in establishing a survey. Digges deals with a different type of survey instrument in a later part of this volume. This is the first description and illustration of the theodolite the name being coined by Digges in this work. This device consisted of a table with an angle-sighting device mounted above it Another intriguing feature of this work is that Digges, in Chapter 21 of the first book, discusses the use of various optical devices and claims that: "ye may by applycation of glasses in due proportion cause any peculiare house, or roume thereof dilate and shew it selfe in as ample fourme as the whole towne firste appeared, so that ye shall descerne any trifle, or read any letter lying there open." Digges senior had obviously been experimenting with a magnifying lens, and it seems very likely that he invented the telescope about a half-century before it was unambiguously described in Holland in 1608. The first book, titled 'Longimetra,' is a treatise on surveying using the quadrant, square and theodolite. The subsequent books, 'Planimetra' and 'Stereometra', cover plane and solid geometry and their use in the calculation of area and volumeparticularly gauging" (Tomash & Williams). Leonard Digges (ca. 1520-ca.1559) refers to a work on practical surveying in A Prognostication Everlasting (1556), but it remained unpublished at his death. His son Thomas (ca.1545-1595) edited the work and added substantial new material of his own (see below) and had it published in 1571. Pantometria deals with the reckoning of distances, areas and volumes, and with instrumental and computational techniques for surveying and mensuration, justified in terms of civic and military utility and of pleasure. His account of quadrants, astrolabes with shadow scales, etc, was influenced by Peter Apian and Gemma Frisius, but his are the first descriptions of the use of these instruments written in English. Digges also describes three new instrumentsthat could be combined to form what he called a 'topographicall instrument'. These were a vertical quadrant with shadow square that wasintended to measure heights; a square with inscribed quadrant and alidade, mounted on a staff; and a circular plate divided into degrees with a centrally mounted alidade, to which Digges gave the name 'theodelitus'. Leonard Digges was a close friend of John Dee, whose private library contained many texts by Roger Bacon. It was probably during visits to Dee's house that Leonard came across Bacon's references to lenses and the ability to use them to 'cause the sun, moon and stars in appearance to descend here below.' Stimulated by Bacon's work, and perhaps by other texts in Dee's library, Leonard set out to determine the principles of refracting and reflecting telescopes and, almost certainly, to actually construct a reflector. Leonard's achievements are praised by Thomas in the preface to the present work: "my father by his continual painful practices, assisted with demonstrations Mathematical, was able, and sundry times hath by proportional Glasses duly situate in convenient angles, not only discovered things far off, read letters, numbered pieces of money with the very coin and superscription thereof, cast by some of his friends of purpose upon downs in open fields, but also seven miles off declared what hath been done at that instant in private places." But the crucial passage reads: "Thus much I though good to open concerning the effects of a plaine Glasse, very pleasant to practise, yea most exactly serving for the description of a plaine champion country. But marveilous are the conclusions that may be performed by Glasses concave and convex of Circulare and parabolicall formes, using for multiplication of beames sometime the aide of Glasses transparent, which by fraction [refraction] should unite or dissipate the images or figures presented by the reflection of the other. By these kinde of Glasses or rather frames of them, placed in due Angles, yee may not only set out before your eye the littely image of every Towne, Village, etc. and that in as little or great space or place as ye will prescribe, but also augment and dilate any parcell thereof, so that whereas at the first appearance an whole Towne shall present it selfe so small and compact together that ye shall not discerne any difference of streates, ye may by application of Glasses in due proportion cause any peculiare house, or roume thereof dilate and shew it selfe in as ample forme as the whole towne first appeared, so that ye shall discerne any trifle, or read any letter there lying open, especially if the sunne beames come unto it, as plain.

title-page foxed, pp. vii, 18, [2, ads], 8vo, [bound with:] [?Bruce (John)] Military Memoir for the Defence of the Eastern District. [London, 1798], pp. [iv, including initial blank], 83, [and:] [Bruce (John)] Report on the Arrangements which have been adopted, in former Periods, when France threatened invasions of Britain or Ireland. London, 1798], pp. iv, 83,[1], [iv], cxx, dated at head of text in MS 'State Paper Office. January 6th. 1798', and p. 83 subscribed by John Bruce ('I have the Honour to be' &c, &c) and with the direction to Henry Dundas, [and:] Le Mesurier (Havilland) The British Commissary, in two parts. Part I. A system for the British Commissariat on foreign service. Part II. An Essay towards ascertaining the use and duties of a Commissariat staff in England. Printed for T. Egerton, 1798, pp. [ii, blank], ix, 177 (including folding tables), contemporary half calf, rebacked. 'Dundas continued to employ Bruce to lend academic weight to his pragmatic policies, noting that the professor's sole joy was to be "buried in old records". The duties were formalized in an official position as historiographer to the East India Company in 1793. It had been clinched by Bruce's Historical View of Plans for the Government of British India (1793), fruit of three years' research exploring options for the imminent renewal of the company's charter. Despite its pernickety style, it sufficiently softened up public opinion for a plan which Dundas wished to air without taking personal responsibility, the creation for himself of a post of president of the Board of Control for India, served by a permanent staff. In 1796 Bruce produced a historical review of the balance of power in Europe. In 1798 his report on defence guided measures to meet the French threat. Bruce was to write a similar report on the requirements of the circumstances created by the uneasy peace of Amiens in 1801. A report published in 1799 dealt with the Anglo-Scottish union, as a precedent for the projected Irish union' (ODNB). (2. ESTC T222116, Rylands only; 3. ESTC T102020, there was another version with the imprint of A. Strahan; 4. ESTC T112138, 2 in the BL and 1 in RUSI Library of Military History).

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