HOOD, THE MAKING AND USE OF THE GEOMETRICALL INSTRUMENT, LONDON, 1598

Mohr, Georg (1640-1697). Euclides Danicus, bestaende in twee deelen. Het eerste deel: handelt van de meetkonstige werckstucken, begrepen in de ses eerste boecken Euclidis: het tweede deel: geest aenleyding om verscheyde werckstucken te maecken... Amsterdam: Jacob van Velsen for the author, 1672, 3 folding plates with numerous figures, signed by the author in authentication, [T&W Add34; Hoogendoorn pp.657-658 MohrG01D; STCN 095738681] Idem. Compendium Euclidis curiosi: dat is, meetkonstigh passer-werck, hoe me meet een gegeven opening van een passer en een liniael, de werck-stucken van Euclides, ontbinden kan... Amsterdam: J. Jansson van Waesberge, 1673, folding plate, [T&W Add33; Hoogendoorn p.658 MohrG02; STCN 844231762] S., J.D. Gegen-übung auf ein mathematisch Tractaetlein, Compendium Euclidis Curiosi genant, worin nebst kurtzem Anweis um verscheidene Euclidische Aufgaben mit einer gegebenen Oeffnung des Zirkels noch auf andere Ahrt zu machen... Amsterdam: J. Jansson van Waesberge, 1673, 2 folding plates, [T&W Add 41; Hoogendoorn p.777 SJD01 and p.1063; STCN 125145705; VD17 23:641065Q] Pilkington, Gilbert. The turnament of Tottenham. Or, the wooing, winning, and wedding, of Ribbe, the reev's daughter there... (A briefe description of the towne of Tottenham High-Crosse... written by Wilhelm Bedwell). London: J. Norton, 1631, without final blank leaf, [T&W Add 36; ESTC S114723; STC 1796] Bedwell, William (1561-1632). Mesolabium architectonicum... invented long since by Mr Thomas Bedwell... and now published... London: J. N[orton] for William Garet, 1631, 2 engraved plates, appendix, without final blank leaf, [T&W Add 4; ESTC S101421; Harris 34; STC 21825] Schöner, Lazarus (c. 1543-1607). De numeris geometricis. Of the nature and proprieties of geometricall numbers... Englished... by Thomas Bedwell. London: R. Field, 1614, with folding table at end, without initial blank leaf, [T&W Add 40; ESTC S116788; STC 21825] Storms, Johannes (1507-1589). De accurata circuli dimensione et quadratura cum sylvula epigrammatum... Louvain: F. Simons, 1633, [T&W S208; USTC 1003943] 8 works in one volume (Hood bound last), 4to (185 x 130mm.), eighteenth-century mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering-piece, red edges, modern folding cloth box, occasional cropping, upper joint weak

Earls of Macclesfield, bookplate, sale in these rooms, 14 April 2005, lot 1407, £32,400, Erwin Tomash

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The sector, also known as the proportional, geometric, or military compass, evolved in the late sixteenth-century from devices used by military engineers, and was well-known across Europe before Galileo published his work on it. Thomas Hood, a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, appointed in 1588 mathematical lecturer to the City of London, probably first learned of the instrument through contacts with the military; “with this book title, he seems to have coined the English word sector (at least as it applies to a mathematical instrument)” (Tomash & Williams, p.1459). Hood’s sector was designed mainly for land surveying. His book notifies the reader that it could be purchased from the instrument maker Charles Whitwell (fl. 1582-1611), who engraved the title-plate for this book.