ISBN10: 0198565666, ISBN13: 9780198565666, [publisher: Oxford Univ Pr] Hardcover illustrated edition edition. 330 pages. 9.75x7.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2000]

ISBN10: 0198565666, ISBN13: 9780198565666, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover First Edition 303 pp. Hardcover, bound in boards with dust jacket. Unmarked copy.
[Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]
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ISBN10: 0198565666, ISBN13: 9780198565666, [publisher: -Oxford University Press -] Hardcover First edition. xiv+305 pages with index. Illustrated black and white and color. Cloth. As new. Fine in fine dustjacket. Europe in the sixteenth century experienced a period of unprecedented vitality and innovation in the spheres of science and commerce. The Americas had been discovered and the colonizing nations had an urgent need for mathematical instruments for navigation and surveying. The Elizabethan age saw the establishment of the precision instrument-making trade in London, from 1540, a trade that would become world-famous in the succeeding two centuries.The first of a group of London makers was an immigrant from Flanders, Thomas Gemini, succeeded by the Englishman, Humfrey Cole.It has proved possible to find over 100 surviving mathematical instruments, signed and unsigned, made by a group of London makers during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. This book describes these instruments in detail, together with the methods by which unsigned instruments are attributed. It tells how the skills of dividing and engraving on brass developed in parallel with the map-making and printing for which the Low Countries were the most important centre. There was already a demand in Elizabethan England for these skills, since accurate measurement was crucial to the professions of navigation, surveying, fortification, and gunnery. England, at war with Spain, eager to exploit the riches of ...

ISBN10: 0198565666, ISBN13: 9780198565666, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.72
[North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2001]

ISBN10: 0198565666, ISBN13: 9780198565666, [publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press 2000] Hardcover First Edition FIRST EDITION Large 8vo. navy clothboud hardback, gilt, with dust jacket. 305pp. with b/w illustrations and colour frontispiece. Dust Jacket has not been price-clipped. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. VG/VG. (Shelf 7) ISBN: 0198565666 NOTE: Heavy Book (1 kg +) Postage outside the UK might incur a surcharge.** Pictures available upon request, if not already displayed here.** The shop is open 7 days a week. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.
[Canterbury, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2001]
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Oxford University Press 2001 Hardcover New Size: 9x7x0; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

ISBN10: 0198565666, ISBN13: 9780198565666, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover First Edition New copy. 305 pages, well illustrated. This book covers the origins of the London trade in precision instrument making from Henry VII to Elizabeth I, and describes over 100 surviving Elizabethan instruments including those by Humfrey Cole and Elias Allen. Such instruments were crucial to the professions of navigation, surveying, fortificaion and gunnery and established London as the centre of precision instrument making for two centuries. With dust jacket.
[Moreton in Marsh, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2000]
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Oxford Univ Pr, Date: 2000. Hardcover. New. illustrated edition edition. 330 pages. 9.75x7.50x0.75 inches. 2000. Oxford Univ Pr ISBN 0198565666 9780198565666 [GB]

Oxford: Oxford University Press, Date: 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 10" x 7 1/2". 305 pages, colour frontispiece and 14 colour plates, black and white illustrations. First describes the context in which the Elizabethan trade began and the known craftsmen; the second part catalogues in detail every surviving instrument from this period, signed and unsigned, that has been traced. Appendix on the attribution of unsigned instruments; Bibliography. An important recent reference work.. 2000. Oxford University Press ISBN 0198565666 9780198565666 [GB]