Mathematicall Recreations Or a Collection of Sundrie Excellent Problemes Out of Ancient&moderne Phylosophers Both Usefull and Recreative

William Leake, and John Leake, at the Crown in Fleetstreet, between the two Temple-Gates, 1674 - 301 pagine

PROBLEM I	1

How to weigh the blow of ones Fift of a Mallet	9

How to difpefe three Staves which may support each	15

How the half of a Veffel which contains 8 measures	22

Many things being diſpoſed circularor otherwiſe	28

How a ponderous or heavy body may be Supported	30

To find a number thought upon after another manner	39

To tell any one what number remains after certain	44

Of Statues of Coloffus or buge Images	117

Of the Game of Square Forms	124

How to make the String of a Viol fenfibly to ſhake	126

Of the Examination of burning by Glaffes	133

of Cupids Apples	139

Principles touching Reflections	141

Experiments upon gibbous or convex fpherical Glaffes	147

Of strange Apparitions of Images in the Air by help	153

Any numbers under 10 being thought upon to find	51

How to make Water in a Glafs feem to boyl and far	54

Many Dice being caft how artificially to discover	60

To reprefent divers forts of Rainbows here below	66

One had a certain number of Crowns and counting	71

Three perfons having taken Counters Cards or other	78

To make or defcribe an Oval form or that which	79

Many Cards placed in divers ranks to find which	85

PROB	91

Of an excellent Lamp which ferves or furnisheth it	95

How Rings of Iron may bang one by another in	103

Of the Thermometer or that which measures	110

How by help of a Concave Glaß to caft light into	156

How with a Musket to ſtrike a mark not looking	162

Corol Of a curious Cabinet made of plain Glaſſes	165

How to charge a Cannon without Powder	172

Of Pigs and their increafe	178

Of a man that gathered Apples Stones or fuchlike	184

To find how much Liquor is in a Veffel onely	190

Of a fine Fountain of Pleaſure	196

Of a Ladder of Cords to carry in ones pocketby which	247

How to praclife excellently the reanimation of Sim	253

Of a Cone or Pyramidal Figure that moves upon	255

Titolo	Mathematicall Recreations Or a Collection of Sundrie Excellent Problemes Out of Ancient&moderne Phylosophers Both Usefull and Recreative Volume 1 di Mathematical Recreations: Or, A Collection of Many Problems Extracted Out of the Ancient and Modern Philosophers: As, Secrets and Experiments in Arithmetick, Geometry, Cosmography, Horologiography, Astronomy, Navigation, Musick, Opticks, Architecture, Statick, Mechanicks, Chymistry, Water-works, Fire-works,&c. Not Vulgarly Manifest Till Now, Hendrik van Etten
Autori	Jean Leurechon, Hendrik van Etten
Editore	William Leake, and John Leake, at the Crown in Fleetstreet, between the two Temple-Gates, 1674
Provenienza dell'originale	The British Library
Digitalizzato	12 mar 2020
Lunghezza	301 pagine

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