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RECORDERS OF GEOMETRY

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as they may most aptly be applied unto practice, both for the use of Instruments Geometricall and Astronomical, and also for projection of Plates, much necessary for all sorts of men. Lond. 4to, 1551.

The Ground of Arts, teaching the perfect worke and practice of Arithmeticke, both in whole numbers and fractions, after a more easy and exact form than in former time hath been set forth, 8vo, 1552.

The Coffle of Knowledge, containing the Explication of the Sphere both Celestiall and Materiall, and divers other things incident thereto. With sundry pleasant proofs and certaine newe demonstrations not written before in any vulgar workes. Lond. fol. 1556.

The Wheftone of Witte, which is the second part of Arithmeticke, containing the extraction of roots; the Coffle practice, with the rules of equation; and the worke of surde numbers. Lond. 4to, 1557.

Wood says that he was the author of several pieces on physic, anatomy, politics, and divinity, but it is uncertain whether these were ever published. Sherburne says that he also published Comographiche Ista-gegen; that he wrote a book, De arte faciendi horologium, and another De usu globorum, et de statu temporum, none of which we have had an opportunity of seeing.