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TitleMathematicall recreations, or, A collection of sundrie problemes extracted out of the ancient and moderne philosophers, as secrets in nature and experiments in arithmeticke, geometrie, cosmographie, horologographie, astronomie, navigation, musicke, opticks, architecture, staticke, machanicks, chimestrie, waterworkes, fireworks, &c. ...Notephysical details: ill. (engravings) Applies To: Applies To: all Added t.p., engraved.Authorship in doubt. Variously attributed to Jean Leurochon, Hendrik van Etten and William Oughtred (to whom is also attributed the translation). Cf. Hall, T. Mathematicall recreations, an exercise in 17th-cent. biblFirst English ed.Signatures: A⁸ *⁸ 2*⁴ B-R⁸ S⁴ T⁸ V⁶additional physical form: Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web siteDimensions17 cm. (8vo)Extent[40], 286 [i.e. 287], [5] p., [1] leaf of platesProvision ActivityPublication: England 1633 Publication: Printed at London: By T. Cotes, for Richard Hawkins, 1633 Responsibility Statementmost of which were written first in Greeke and Latine, lately compiled in French, by Henry Van Etten, Gent., and now delivered in the English tongue, with the examinations, corrections and augmentations.