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• Modern Instruments and Methods of Calculation, ed. by E. M. Horsburgh (page images at Cornell)
• Proteo militare di Bartolomeo Romano. Diuiso in tre libri. Nel primo si descrive la fabrica di detto proteo, & in esso nuovo istrumento, tutti gli altri istrumenti di matematica che imaginar si possano. Nel secondo, e terzo si tratta dell'vso di detto istrumento, nelquale si formano tutte le figure di geometria, e diuersi istrumenti di prospettiua, pittura, scoltura, & architettura. S'insegna ancora l'arte del navigare, e quella del guerreggiare con nuouo, e facilissimo modo, come più distintamente nella tauola si potra redere. (In Napoli, Appresso Gio. Iacomo Carlino, & Antonio Pace, 1595), by Bartolomeo Crescentio Romano (page images at HathiTrust)
• Praktische mathematik / (Leipzig : B. G. Teubner, 1918-), by R. Neuendorff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of mathematical precision instruments : edition 1915, without engagement. (Zurich : Mathematical-Mechanical Institute of G. Coradi, 1915), by Swizerland) Mathematical-Mechanical Institute of G. Coradi (Zurich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fabrica, et vso del compasso di proportione : doue insegna à gli artefici il modo di fare in esso le necessarie diuisioni, e con varij problemi vsuali mostra l'vtilità di questo stromento / (In Bologna : Presso Gio. Battista Ferroni, 1664), by Paolo Casati (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathematical drawing and measuring instruments : their construction, uses, qualities, selection, preservation, and suggestions for improvements, with hints upon drawing, colouring, lettering, etc. / (New York : Spon, 1888), by William Ford Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fabrica et usus instrumenti chorographici : quo mira facilitate describuntur regiones & singulae partes earum, veluti montes, urbes, castella, pagi, propugnacula, & similia : additae sunt, praeter duo instrumenta homogenea XV. formae aneae, fabricam & usum instrumentorum quasi in synopsi proponentes / ([Basel] : Impensis Ludovici Regis, bibliopolae Basiliensis, anno 1607), by Leonhard Zubler and Kaspar Waser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discorso sopra la fabrica, e vso delle nvove verghe astronomiche / (In Fiorenza : Appresso Giorgio Marescotti, 1582), by Antonio Lupicini (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'vso del la sqvadra mobile. Con la qvale per teorica et per pratica si misura geometricamente ogni distanza, altezza, e profondità, s'impara a perticare, liuellare, et piglare in disegno le città, paesi, et prouincie. Il tutto con le sue dimostrationi intagliate in rame. (In Venetia, Appresso Francesco Barilleti, alla insegna del mondo, 1598), by Ottavio Fabri (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'vso della squadra mobile : con la quale per teorica, & pratica si misura geometricamente ogni distanza, altezza, e profondità : s'impara à perticare, liuellare, et pigliare in disegno le città, paesi, et prouincie : il tutto con le sue dimostrationi intagliate in rame / (In Padoua : Appresso Pietro Bertelli, 1615), by Ottavio Fabri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern instruments and methods of calculation; a handbook of the Napier tercentenary exhibition, (London, G. Bell and Sons, Ltd.;and [[Edinburgh] The Royal Society of Edinburgh, [1914]), by E. M. Horsburgh and Scotland) Napier Tercentenary Exhibition (1914 : Edinburgh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mathematische Instrumente, (Leipzig und Berlin, B. G. Teubner, 1912), by Andreas Wilhelm Gottfried Galle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les appareils d'intégration: intégrateurs simples et composés; planimètres; intégromètres; intégraphes et courbes intégrales; analyse harmonique et analyseurs. (Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1913), by H. de Morin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• I miei integrafi per equazioni differenziali. (Napoli, B. Pellerano, 1914), by Ernesto Pascal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The multisector and polyode / (New Orleans : The Times-Democrat, 1882), by J. W. Nicholson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of the exhibition of Napier relics and of books, instruments, and devices for facilitating calculation. ([Edinburgh] Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1914), by E. M. Horsburgh, Royal Society of Edinburgh, and Edinburgh Napier Tercentenary Exhibition (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mathematical drawing instruments and how to use them / (New York : W.T. Comstock, 1883), by F. Edward Hulme (page images at HathiTrust)
• An illustrated and descriptive catalogue of surveying, philosophical, mathematical, optical, photographic and standard meteorological instruments manufactured by L. Casella. (London, [pref. 1871]), by L. P. Casella (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogve de la collection Mercator : instruments de mathématiques anciennes. (Paris : Mercator, [192-?]), by Gerhard Mercator (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue & price list of Eugene Dietzgen Co., manufacturers of drawing materials and surveying instruments. (Chicago : Eugene Dietzgen Co., 1910), by Eugene Dietzgen Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on the epicycloidal cutting frame of messrs. Holtzapffel & co., with special reference to its compensation adjustment and with numerous illustrations of its capabilities. (London, Trübner and Co., 1872), by Thomas Sebastion Bazley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sextant and other reflecting mathematical instruments, with practical hints, suggestions and wrinkles, on their errors, adjustments and use. With thirty-three illustrations. (New York, D. Van Nostrand company, 1891), by Frederick Roland Brainard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geometrical and graphical essays, containing a general description of the mathematical instruments used in geometry, civil and military surveying, levelling, and perspective. (London : Dillon, [1807?]), by George Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Praktische analysis, (Leipzig, Berlin, B. G. Teubner, 1923), by Horst von Sanden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Priced and illustrated catalogue of mathematical instruments and materials for drawing, surveying and civil engineering / (Philadelphia ; New York : James W. Queen & Co., [1873]), by James W. Queen & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathematische modelle zum selbstanfertigen ... (Nordhausen, Koppe, [pref. 1910]), by Heinrich Koppe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Rechentafel der Alten. (Wien, In Kommission bei A. Hölder, 1914), by Alfred Nagl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Technology of instrumentation. (Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand, [c1957]), by Eric Bell Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zwei neue mathematische messinstrumente. (Barmen, Schmidtmann, 1905), by Robert Kreuschner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zwei neue mathematische messinstrumente: (Barmen, Schmidtmann, 1906), by Robert Kreuschner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalog mathematischer modelle für den höheren mathematischen Unterricht : veröffentlicht durch die Verlagshandlung / (Leipzig : Schilling, 1911), by Martin Schilling (Firm) Leipzig (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A treatise on mathematical instruments : including most of the instruments employed in drawing, for assisting the vision, in surveying and levelling, in practical astronomy, and for measuring the angles of crystals : in which their construction, and the methods of testing, adjusting, and using them, are concisely explained (London : J. Weale, 1853), by J. F. Heather (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathematical instruments. Their construction, adjustment, testing, and use. (London, Lockwood & Co., 1872-), by John Fry Heather (page images at HathiTrust)
• An elementary treatise on the construction and use of the mathematical instruments usually put into portable cases. (Boston, Perkins & Marvin, 1830), by Henry K. Oliver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die geometrischen Instrumente der gesammten praktischen Geometrie, deren Theorie, Beschreibung und Gebrauch / (Hannover : Carl Rümpler, 1864), by G. Chr. K. Hunäus (page images at HathiTrust)
• La règle à calcul expliquée : ou, Guide du calculateur à l'aide de la règle logarithmique à tiroir, dans lequel on indique les moyens de construire cet instrument, et l'on enseigne à y opérer toute sorte de calculs numériques / (Paris : Mallet-Bachelier, 1853), by P.-M.-N. Benoît (page images at HathiTrust)
• Praktische Mathematik. (Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1911-), by R. Neuendorff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Apollonius Cattus, oder, Kern der gantzen Geometriæ in drey Theil/ (Cassel : In Verlegung J. Ingebrands; Marburg, J. H. Stock, 1684), by Benjamin Bramer, Johannes Ingebrandt, and Jost Bürgi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Usage du compas de proportion, et de l'instrument universel : pour résoudre promptement & très-exactement les problêmes de la géometrie-pratique, tant sur le papier que sur le terrein, sans aucun calcul : avec un traité de la division des champs / (A Paris : Chez Charles-Ant. Jombert ..., 1748), by Jacques Ozanam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue des objets d'art, faiences italiennes, bronzes, cuivres, étains, armes, bois sculptś, instruments de mathématiques, compas, règles cadrans solaires, astrolabes, sphères, lunettes, microscopes, etc., outils meubles, tableaux, étoffes, etc. principalement du XVIe siècle : composant la collection de feu M. Rousell dont la vente aura lieu à Paris Hotel Drouot, salle No6, les lundi 13, mardi 14, mercredi 15 mars 1911 à deux heures . ([Paris : s.n., 1911]), by Mme Roussel and Edmond Bonnafé (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geometrical and graphical essays, containing a general description of the mathematical instruments used in geometry, civil and military surveying, levelling, and perspective; with many new practical problems. (London, Printed by W. Glendinning for, and sold by W. and S. Jones, 1803), by George Adams and William Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Katalog mathematischer und mathematisch-physikalischer Modelle, Apparate und Instrumente : Unter Mitwerkung zahlreicher Fachgenossen / (München : Dr.C. Wolf & Sohn, 1892-93), by Walther von Dyck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutsche unterrichts-ausstellung in Chicago 1893. Special-katalog der mathematischen ausstellung (gruppe x der Universitäts-auste llung) (Berlin, 1893), by Walther von Dyck (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on mathematical instruments; their constuction, adjustment, testing, and use concisely explained. (London, C. Lockwood, 1888), by J. F. Heather (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le calcul simplifié par les procédés mécaniques et graphiques / (Paris : Gauthier-Villars, 1894), by Maurice d' Ocagne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Renati Francisci Slusii Mesolabvm ; seu, Duae ediae proportionales inter extremas datas per circulam et per infinitas hyperbolas, vel ellipses et per quamlibet exhibitae, ac problematum omnium solidorum effectio per easdem curvas. Accessit pars altera De analysi, et Miscellanea. (Leodii Eburonum, apud Gulielmum Henricum Streel, 1668), by René François Sluse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notions d'arithgraphie, (Paris, H. Lepage, [189-?]), by E. Monnier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Exhibit of early astronomical and mathematical instruments. (New York, N.Y., Museums of the peaceful arts, [1930?]), by Museum of science and industry New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical manual of the E-6B computer / (North Hollywood, Calif. : Pan American Navigation Service, c1958), by Allan C. Zweng, Elmer F. Practical manual of the E-6B computer Degon, and Pan American Navigation Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le operazioni del compasso geometrico, e militare (Milano, Nelle stampe di F. Agnelli, 1741), by Galileo Galilei and Matthias Bernegger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instruments for the enrichment of secondary school mathematics. ([Ann Arbor, Mich., Edwards Bros., 1951]), by Randolph Scott Gardner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le calcul simplifié par les procédés mécaniques et graphiques. Histoire et description sommaire des instruments et machines á calculer, tables, abaques et nomogrammes, (Paris, Gauthier-Villiars, 1905), by Maurice d' Ocagne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'usage du compas de proportion, expliqué et demontré d'une manière courte & facile, & augm.d'un traité de la division des champs. (Paris, C.-A. Jombert, 1736), by Jacques Ozanam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nieuwe verklaring over de proportianaal passer, waar in aangewesen word, hoe dezelve is te tekenen, en hoe tafeltjes daar toe dienende konnen werden berekent, vervolgens der zelver veelvuldig en nuttig gebruyk, zoo in de tel- als meetkonst; namentlyk: in de telkonst, om uyt een gegeven getal de quadraat en cubic-wortel te trekken, de regel van driën uyt werken, enz. In de meetkonst, om driehoeken, zoo regt- als scheefhoekige t'ontbinden; zonnewyzers te teekenen, fortressen t'ontwerpen; veele en verscheyde voorstellen, aangaande linien, hoeken, geschikte en ongeschikte vlakken, ronden, geschikte lichaamen, metaalen kogelen, enz. op te lossen. (Amsterdam, J. Loots, 1708), by Pieter Warius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Construccion, y uso del compàs de proporcion, escrito en idioma italiano, y traducido de èl al castellano por don Pedro de Castro y Ascarraga. (En Madrid, En la imprenta de don G. Ramirez, Año de 1758), by Giovanni Pagnini, trans. by Pedro de Castro y Ascarraga (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrations to mathematics and astronomy / (New York : D. Appleton, 1856), by J. G. Heck and Henry Winkles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattato de compasso di proporzione, (Milano, Per G. Galleazzi, 1759), by Giovanni Marchelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geometrical and graphical essays, containing a general description of the mathematical instruments used in geometry, civil and military surveying, levelling, and perspective; with many new practical problems, illustrated by thirty-four copper plates. (London, Printed by C. Baldwin for, and sold by W. and S. Jones, 1813), by George Adams, ed. by William Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• The description, nature and general use, of the sector and plain-scale, briefly and plainly laid down. As also a short account of the uses of the lines of numbers, artificial sines and tangents. ([London, 1721]), by E. S., contrib. by Edmund Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Circinus geometricus, zu teutsch Mess-circkel, nemlich: ein geometrisch Instrument, du[r]ch welches gar leicht, gewiss vnnd künstlich, so wohl ohne, als durch die Rechnungen, alle Höhe, länge, Tieffe, Breite vnd Schräge: dessgleichen einen Acker, Wissmat oder Wald, [et]c abzumessen: eine Mappa oder Landtafel zu beschreiben; eine gerade Lini in etliche gewisse Theil abzuschneide: grosse Stuck oder Geschütz zu richten ... Mit sonderm Fleiss vnd langer Müh zusam̃ getragen vnd beschrieben, ([Nürnberg] Gedruckt vnd verlegt durch Simon Halbmayern, 1626), by Kaspar Uttenhofer, ed. by Daniel Schwenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Field work in mathematics, (New York, Cincinnati [etc.] American book company, [c1935]), by Carl Nathaniel Shuster and Fred L. Bedford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instruction pour l'emploi de l'intégrateur Amsler ... (Schaffhouse : Imprimerie Stötzner & comp., 1892), by Alfred Amsler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mathematische Instrumente, (Leipzig, Berlin, B. G. Teubner, 1912), by A. Galle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mathematische instrumente / (Berlin ; Leipzig : W. de Gruyter, 1926), by Fr. A. Willers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Application and operation fo the UCRL differential analyzer / (Berkeley, Ca. : [Lawrence] Radiation Laboratory. Oak Ridge, Tn. : Technical Information Division, 1953), by John Killeen and Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern instruments and methods of calculation; a handbook of the Napier tercentenary exhibition, (London, G. Bell and Sons, Ltd.;and [[Edinburgh] The Royal Society of Edinburgh, [1914]), by Scotland) Napier Tercentenary Exhibition (1914 : Edinburgh, ed. by E. M. Horsburgh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A treatise on mathematical instruments, including most of the instruments employed in drawing, for assisting the vision, in surveying and levelling, in practical astronomy, and for measuring the angles of crystals: in which their construction, and the methods of testing, adjusting, and using them, are concisley explained. (London, J. Weale, 1856), by J. F. Heather (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new treatise of the construction and use of the sector. Containing, the solutions of the principal problems by that admirable instrument in the chief branches of mathematicks ... (London, Printed for J. Wilcox and T. Heath, 1729), by Mr. Cunn, ed. by Edmund Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fabrica, et vso del compasso di proportione, doue insegna à gli artefici il modo di fare in esso le necessarie diuisioni, e con varij problemi vsuali mostra l'vtilità di questo stromento, (Bologna, presso G. B. Ferroni, 1664), by Paolo Casati (page images at HathiTrust)
• Usage du compas de proportion, suivi d'un Traité de la division des champs; (Paris, Chez Firmin Didot, as IIe de la Republique, 1794), by J.-G. Garnier and Didot family. PRIN (page images at HathiTrust)
• Michael Scheffelts Unterricht vom proportionalzirkel. (Breslau, J. F. Korn dem aeltern, 1781), by Michael Scheffelt, ed. by Johann Ephraim Scheibel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The description, nature and general use, of the sector and plain-scale, briefly and painly [!] laid down. As also a short account of the uses of the lines of numbers, artificial sines and tangents. (London, Printed for T. Wright, 1746), by E. S., contrib. by Edmund Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Katalog mathematischer und mathematisch-physikalischer Modelle, apparate und instrumente. : Unter mitwirkung Zahlreicher Fachgenossen / (München : C. Wolf & Sohn, 1892), by Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung, O. Henrici, Alfred Amsler, Ludwig Boltzmann, Anton von Braunmühl, Guido Hauck, Alexander von Brill, Aurel Voss, Felix Klein, and Walther von Dyck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fabrica et vso del compasso di proportione, doue insegna à gli artefici il modo di fare in esso le necessarie diuisioni, e con varij problemi vsuali mostra l'vtilita di questo stromento, (Bologna, Per G. Longhi, 1685), by Paolo Casati (page images at HathiTrust)
• Michael Scheffelts Instrumentum proportionum, oder Unterricht vom proportional-circul, durch welchen sowohl mathematische als mechanische, unter die proportion gehörige fragen ... aufzulösen seyn; aufs neue übersehen, nebst den behörigen figuren ... und andern nützlichen zugaben verm., by Michael Scheffelt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Palmer's pocket scale : with rules for its use in solving arithmetical and geometrical problems / (Rochester : Aaron Palmer, 1845), by Aaron Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A descriptive treatise on mathematical drawing instruments : their construction, uses, qualities, selection, preservation, and suggestions for improvements, with hints upon drawing and colouring, (London, Spon, 1878), by William Ford Robinson Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nuovi istromenti per la descrizione di diverse curve antiche e moderne e di molte altre, che servir possono alla speculazione de' geometri, ed all' uso de' pratici. Col progetto di due nuove macchine per la nautica ed una per la meccanica, e con alcune osservazioni sopra de' poligoni rettilinei regolari, (In Brescia, Dalle stampe de G.-M. Rizzardi, 1752), by Giovanni Battista Suardi (page images at HathiTrust)
• An easy introduction to plane trigonometry: the application of it to the measuring of heights, distances & land; & the use of the portable case of mathematical instruments. (Salop, Printed by J. Eddowes, 1766), by Caleb Ashworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the collections in the Science museum, South Kensington : with descriptive and historical notes and illustrations. (London : H. M. Stationery off., 1926-), by Science Museum (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Histoire des nombres et de la numération mécanique (in French), by Jacomy-Régnier (Gutenberg ebook)
• The description and use of a joynt-rule fitted with lines for the finding the hour of the day and azimuth of the sun, to any particular latitude, or, to apply the same generally to any latitude : together with all the uses of Gunters quadrant applyed thereunto ... / contriv'd & written by J. Brown, philomath. (London : Printed by T.J. for J. Brown and H. Sutton, and sold at their houses, 1661), by John Brown (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The description and use of the carpenters-rule together with The use of the line of numbers commonly called Gunters-line : applyed to the measuring of all superficies and solids, as board, glass, plaistering, wainscoat, tyling, paving, flooring, &c., timber, stone, square on round, gauging of vessels, &c. : also military orders, simple and compound interest, and tables of reduction, with the way of working by arithmatick in most of them : together with the use of the glasiers and Mr. White's sliding-rules, rendred plain and easie for ordinary capacities / by John Brown. (London : Printed for W. Fisher and R. Mount ..., 1688), by John Brown (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The triangular quadrant, or, The quadrant on a sector being a general instrument for land or sea observations : performing all the uses of the ordinary sea instruments, as Davis quadrant, forestaff, crosstaff, bow, with more ease, profitableness, and conveniency, and as much exactness as any or all of them : moreover, it may be made a particular and a general quadrant for all latitudes, and have the sector lines also : to which is added a rectifying table to find the suns true declination to a minute or two, any day or hour of the 4 years : whereby to find the latitude of a place by meridian, or any two other altitudes of the sun or stars / first thus contrived and made by John Brown ... ([London] : To be sold at [his, i.e. Brown's] house, or at Hen. Sutton's ..., 1662), by John Brown (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Mechanick dyalling teaching any man, though of an ordinary capacity and unlearned in the mathematicks, to draw a true sun-dyal on any given plane, however scituated : only with the help of a straight ruler and a pair of compasses, and without any arithmetical calculation / by Joseph Moxon ... (London : Printed for Joseph Moxon ..., 1668), by Joseph Moxon (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Art of numbring by speaking-rods, vulgarly called Nepeirs bones (London : Printed for G. Sawbridge and are to be sold at his house ..., 1667), by William Leybourn (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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