Mathematical Collections and Translations: The First Tome


Mathematical Collections and Translations: The First Tome



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To the most Serene Grand DUKE OF TUSCANY.

To the Noble and most perfectly Accomplished S^{t.} JOHN DENHAM Knight of the Noble Order of the BATH, And Surveyor General of his Ma^{ties} Works, &c.

THE AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION.

CONTENTS of the FIRST TOME.

GALILÆUS Galilæus Lyncæus, HIS SYSTEME OF THE WORLD.
  The First Dialogue.
  The Second Dialogue.
  The Third Dialogue.
  The Fourth Dialogue.

THE Ancient and Modern DOCTRINE OF Holy Fathers, AND Iudicious Divines,

A TABLE Of the most Observable PERSONS and MATTERS Mentioned in the FIRST PART Of The First Tome.

MATHEMATICAL COLLECTIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: THE SECOND TOME.

THE AUTHOURS EPISTLE TO Pope URBAN VIII.

AN ACCOUNT OF THE Authour and Work.

OF THE MENSURATION OF Running Waters.
  LIB. I.
  Lib. II.

A CONSIDERATION Upon the DRAINING OF THE Pontine Fenns.

A TABLE Of the most observable matters in this Treatise of the MENSURATION of RUNNING WATERS.

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A TABLE Of the most observable matters in this Treatise of the MENSURATION of RUNNING WATERS.

   
Errour of Bartolotti. 86, 87
Errours of Engineers in the Derivation of Chenels. Corollary XII. 12
Errour of Engineers in Measuring of Reno in Po. Appendix III. ibid.
Errour of other Engineers, contrary to the precedent. Appendix IV. Ibid.
Errour of Giovanni Fontana in Measuring Waters, Corollary XI. 9
Errour of Giulio Frontino in Measuring the Waters of Aqueducts. Appendix I. 17
Errours committed in cutting the Bank at Bondeno, in the swellings of Po: CorollaryXIII. 81
F
Fenns Pontine, Drained by Pope Sixtus Quintus, with vast expence. 92
The ruine and miscarriage thereof. 93
Tardity of the principal Chanel that Drains them, cause of the Drowning. ibid.
They are obstructed by the Fishing-Wears, which suell the River. 94
Waters of Fiume Sisto, which flow in great abundance into the Evacuator of the said Fenns. 94, 95
Remedies to the disorders of those Fenns. 95, 96
Fontana Giovanni, his errours in Measuring Waters. Corollary XI. 9
Fiume Morto, whether it ought to fall into the Sea, or into Serchio, 79
Let into Serchio and its inconveniences. 79, 80
The dangerous rising of its Waters, when to be expected. 81
Its inconveniences when it is higher in level than Serchio, and why it riseth most On the Sea-coasts, at such time as the Winds make the Sea to suell. 83
G
Galilæo Galilæi. hoxourably mentioned. Page 2, 28
His Rule for measuring the time. 49
H
Height, vide Quick
Heights different, made by the same stream of a Brock or Torrent, according to the divers Velocities in the entrance of the River. Corollary I. 6
Heights different, made by the Torrent in the River, according to the different heights of the River. Corollary II. ibid.
K
Knowledge of Motion how much it importeth. 1
L
t
Lake of Perugia, and, he Observation made on it. Appendix XII. 42
Lake of Thrasimenus and Considerations upon it, a Letter written to Sig. Galilæo Galilæi. 28
Lake of Venice, and Considerations upon it. 63, 73
Low Waters which let the bottom of it be discovered. 64
The stoppage and choaking of the Ports, a main cause of the disorders of the Lake, and the grand remedy to those disorders what it is. 66
Lakes and Metrs along the Sea-coasts, and the causes thereof. 65
Length of Waters, how it is to be Measured. 70
M
Measure and Distributions of Waters. Appendix V. 18

Measure

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