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Mathematical Treasures - German protractor
Author(s):
Frank J. Swetz and Victor J. Katz
Brass protractor from about 1700 of German manufacture. Its base plate contains some Baroque decoration. Note its similarity to a present day student protractor.
Index of Mathematical Treasures
Frank J. Swetz and Victor J. Katz, "Mathematical Treasures - German protractor," Convergence (January 2011)
Dummy View - NOT TO BE DELETED
Mathematical Treasures from the Smith and Plimpton Collections at Columbia University
- Mathematical Treasures from the Smith and Plimpton Collections - Introduction
- Mathematical Treasures from the Smith and Plimpton Collections - Index
- Mathematical Treasures - 16th-Century Tuscan Arithmetic
- Mathematical Treasures - 17th-Century Student Notes
- Mathematical Treasures - Abraham Lincoln's Cyphering Book
- Mathematical Treasures - Adam Riese's Rechenbuch
- Mathematical Treasures - Adriaan Vlacq's Logarithms
- Mathematical Treasures - Al-Khwarizmi's Algebra
- Mathematical Treasures - Albrecht Durer's Treatise on Mensuration
- Mathematical Treasures - An Illustrated Commercial Arithmetic
- Mathematical Treasures - Angeli's Stereometry
- Mathematical Treasures - Anonymous German Arithmetic
- Mathematical Treasures - Antichissimo di Algorismo
- Mathematical Treasures - Arabic Book of “The Middle Books”
- Mathematical Treasures - Arabic Treatise Concerning the Use of the Astrolabe
- Mathematical Treasures - Ars Magna Title Page
- Mathematical Treasures - Austrian measuring rod
- Mathematical Treasures - Austrian weights
- Mathematical Treasures - Bachet's Arithmetic of Diophantus
- Mathematical Treasures - Bartholomew Pitiscus's Trigonometry
- Mathematical Treasures - Benedetto da Firenze's Trattato d'arismetriche
- Mathematical Treasures - Bettini's Aerarium Philosophiae Mathematicae
- Mathematical Treasures - Bezout's Cours de Mathematique
- Mathematical Treasures - Billingsley Euclid
- Mathematical Treasures - Boethius's Arithmetic
- Mathematical Treasures - Boethius's Liber Circuli
- Mathematical Treasures - Bombelli's Algebra
- Mathematical Treasures - Boole on Differential Equations
- Mathematical Treasures - Boulenger's Practical Geometry
- Mathematical Treasures - Cauchy's Mathematical Exercises
- Mathematical Treasures - Cavalieri's Geometry of Indivisibles
- Mathematical Treasures - Cavalieri's Plane and Spherical Trigonometry
- Mathematical Treasures - Charles Bossut's Traite elementaire de geometrie
- Mathematical Treasures - Christiaan Huygens' De Circuli Magnitudine Inventa
- Mathematical Treasures - Christian Wolff's Treatise of Algebra
- Mathematical Treasures - Christopher Clavius's Edition of Euclid's Elements
- Mathematical Treasures - Christopher Clavius's Opera Mathematica
- Mathematical Treasures - Clavius's Epitome arithmetica practica
- Mathematical Treasures - Commercial Arithmetic from Spain
- Mathematical Treasures - Condorcet on the Application of Probability to Voting
- Mathematical Treasures - De Divina Proportione, by Luca Pacioli
- Mathematical Treasures - Deidier on Arithmetic and Geometry
- Mathematical Treasures - Desargues' Sundials
- Mathematical Treasures - Early Printed Italian Arithmetic
- Mathematical Treasures - English gauger's scale
- Mathematical Treasures - English tally sticks
- Mathematical Treasures - Euclid's Elements from Germany
- Mathematical Treasures - Euclid's Elements from Italy
- Mathematical Treasures - Euclid's Elements in a 14th century manuscript
- Mathematical Treasures - Euclid's Elements in a manuscript from c. 1294
- Mathematical Treasures - First Issue of Acta Mathematica
- Mathematical Treasures - Flemish Commercial Arithmetic
- Mathematical Treasures - Francesco Barozzi's Procli Diadochi
- Mathematical Treasures - Francesco Ghaligai's Pratica d'Arithmetica
- Mathematical Treasures - Francis Maseres's Doctrine of Permutations
- Mathematical Treasures - Francisco Feliciano's Libro di Arithmetica
- Mathematical Treasures - Franciscus Maurolycus's Arithmeticorum libri duo
- Mathematical Treasures - Francois Viete's Collected Works
- Mathematical Treasures - Frans van Schooten's Exercitationes mathematicae
- Mathematical Treasures - Galileo's Geometrical Compass
- Mathematical Treasures - Galileo's Siderius Nuncius
- Mathematical Treasures - Gaspard Monge's Descriptive Geometry
- Mathematical Treasures - Gemma Frisius's Arithmeticae Methodus Facilis
- Mathematical Treasures - German protractor
- Mathematical Treasures - Gerolamo Cardano's Practica Arithmetice
- Mathematical Treasures - Giuseppe Alberti's Instruzioni pratiche per l’ingenero civile
- Mathematical Treasures - Greek Edition of Euclid's Elements
- Mathematical Treasures - Isaac Barrow's Edition of Euclid's Elements
- Mathematical Treasures - Isaac Barrow's Geometrical Lectures
- Mathematical Treasures - Isaac Barrow's edition of Archimedes, Apollonius, & Theodosius
- Mathematical Treasures - Isaac Newton's Collected Works
- Mathematical Treasures - Italian armillary sphere
- Mathematical Treasures - Italian astrolabe
- Mathematical Treasures - Italian compass
- Mathematical Treasures - Jacob Bernoulli's Ars Conjectandi
- Mathematical Treasures - Jacob Kobel's Geometry
- Mathematical Treasures - Jacob Kobel's Rechenbuch
- Mathematical Treasures - Jan de Witt's Elements of Curves
- Mathematical Treasures - Jiuzhang suanshu
- Mathematical Treasures - Johann Boschenstein's Rechenbuch
- Mathematical Treasures - Johann Faulhaber's Academia Algebrae
- Mathematical Treasures - Johann Kepler's Rudolphine Tables
- Mathematical Treasures - Johann Kepler's Uralten Messekunst Archimedes
- Mathematical Treasures - Johann Neudörffer‘s Rechenbüchlein
- Mathematical Treasures - Johann Scheubel's De Numeris
- Mathematical Treasures - John Eyre's The Exact Surveyor
- Mathematical Treasures - John Ward's Compendium of Algebra
- Mathematical Treasures - Jonas Moore's Arithmetick in Four Books
- Mathematical Treasures - Jordanus de Nemore's Arithmetica
- Mathematical Treasures - Juan de Ortega's 16th-Century Arithmetic
- Mathematical Treasures - Kepler's Epitome of Astronomy
- Mathematical Treasures - Kepler's Logarithms
- Mathematical Treasures - Korean sangi rods
- Mathematical Treasures - Lacroix's Calculus of Probability
- Mathematical Treasures - Lagrange's Analytical Mechanics
- Mathematical Treasures - Laplace's Celestial Mechanics
- Mathematical Treasures - Legendre's Elements of Geometry
- Mathematical Treasures - Leibniz - Bernoulli correspondence
- Mathematical Treasures - Leonard Digges' Tectonicon
- Mathematical Treasures - Leonhard Euler's Algebra
- Mathematical Treasures - Leonhard Euler's Calculus of Variations
- Mathematical Treasures - Leonhard Euler's Differential Calculus
- Mathematical Treasures - Leonhard Euler's Integral Calculus
- Mathematical Treasures - Leonhard Zubler's Nova Instrumentum Geometricum
- Mathematical Treasures - Lilavati of Bhaskara
- Mathematical Treasures - Maclaurin's Geometria Organica
- Mathematical Treasures - Maclaurin's Treatise of Algebra
- Mathematical Treasures - Margarita philosophica of Gregor Reisch
- Mathematical Treasures - Maria Agnesi's Analytical Institutions
- Mathematical Treasures - Marin Mersenne's Universal Geometry
- Mathematical Treasures - Marolois on Applications of Mathematics
- Mathematical Treasures - Mascheroni's Geometry
- Mathematical Treasures - Maseres on Polynomial Equations
- Mathematical Treasures - Mathematics of Peter Ramus
- Mathematical Treasures - Mengoli's Elements of Geometry
- Mathematical Treasures - Michael Stifel's Arithmetica Integra
- Mathematical Treasures - Nasir al-din al-Tusi's Commentary on Euclid's Elements
- Mathematical Treasures - Nathan Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant
- Mathematical Treasures - Newton's Universal Arithmetick
- Mathematical Treasures - Nicolo Tartaglia's General Trattato di Numeri et Misure
- Mathematical Treasures - Nicolo Tartaglia's Nova Scientia
- Mathematical Treasures - Oliver Byrne's Euclid
- Mathematical Treasures - Omar Khayyam’s Algebra
- Mathematical Treasures - On Triangles, by Regiomontanus
- Mathematical Treasures - Opus Arithmetica of Honoratus
- Mathematical Treasures - Oronce Fine's Geometry
- Mathematical Treasures - Oronce Fine's Le Sphere du Monde
- Mathematical Treasures - Oughtred's Key to Mathematics
- Mathematical Treasures - Ozanam's Trigonometry
- Mathematical Treasures - Pacioli's Summa
- Mathematical Treasures - Pardies's Practical Geometry
- Mathematical Treasures - Peter Apianus's Trigonometry and Geography
- Mathematical Treasures - Peurbach's Elements of Arithmetic
- Mathematical Treasures - Piero Borghi's Libro de Abacho
- Mathematical Treasures - Pierre-Simon Laplace on Probability
- Mathematical Treasures - Plimpton 322
- Mathematical Treasures - Qadi Zada al-Rumi's Geometry
- Mathematical Treasures - Ramus's The Way to Geometry
- Mathematical Treasures - Rene Descartes' Treatise on Method
- Mathematical Treasures - Richard Sault's New Treatise of Algebra
- Mathematical Treasures - Robert Recorde's Pathway to Knowledge
- Mathematical Treasures - Robert Recorde's Whetstone of Witte
- Mathematical Treasures - Rudolff's Arithmetic and Algebra
- Mathematical Treasures - Ruffini's Algebra
- Mathematical Treasures - Saccheri on Euclid's Parallel Postulate
- Mathematical Treasures - Sacrobosco’s Algorismus
- Mathematical Treasures - Seki Kowa's Essentials of Mathematics
- Mathematical Treasures - Simon Jacob's Rechenbuch
- Mathematical Treasures - Simon Stevin's Arithmetic
- Mathematical Treasures - Simon Stevin's Oeuvres Mathematiques
- Mathematical Treasures - Stefano di Battista’s Summa arismetice
- Mathematical Treasures - Tacquet's Cylinders and Annuli
- Mathematical Treasures - Tagliente's Commercial Arithmetic
- Mathematical Treasures - The Art of Numbering (anonymous)
- Mathematical Treasures - The Grounde of Artes by Robert Recorde
- Mathematical Treasures - The Mathesis of William Jones
- Mathematical Treasures - The Treviso Arithmetic
- Mathematical Treasures - Thomas Digges' Pantometria
- Mathematical Treasures - Tycho Brahe's astronomical instruments
- Mathematical Treasures - Van Heuraet's Rectification of Curves
- Mathematical Treasures - Varignon's Elements of Mathematics
- Mathematical Treasures - Wallis's Treatise of Algebra
- Mathematical Treasures - Widman's Commercial Arithmetic
- Mathematical Treasures - William Emerson's Treatise of Algebra
- Mathematical Treasures - William Frend's Algebra and Arithmetic
- Mathematical Treasures - Zhoubi suanjing
- Mathematical Treasures – Euler's Analysis of the Infinite
- Mathematical Treasures – The Geometry of Descartes in Latin
- Mathematical Treasures – Wallis's 1655–56 Works on Quadrature
- Mathematical Treasures - The George Arthur Plimpton Collection
- Mathematical Treasures - The David Eugene Smith Collection
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