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    The triangular quadrant, or, The quadrant on a sector : being a general instrument for land or sea observations : performing all the uses of the ordinary sea instruments, as Davis quadrant, forestaff, crosstaff, bow, with more ease, profitableness, and conveniency, and as much exactness as any or all of them : moreover, it may be made a particular and a general quadrant for all latitudes, and have the sector lines also : to which is added a rectifying table to find the suns true declination to a minute or two, any day or hour of the 4 years : whereby to find the latitude of a place by meridian, or any two other altitudes of the sun or stars /
    by Brown, John, philomath
    Published 1662
    “...To be sold at [his, id est Brown's] house, or at Hen. Sutton's ...,...”
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    Horologiographia, or, The art of dyalling : being the second book of the use of the trianguler-quadrant : shewing the natural, artificial, and instrumental way, of making of sun-dials, on any flat superficies, with plain and easie directions, to discover their nature and affections, by the horizontal projection : with the way of drawing the usual ornaments on any plain : also, a familiar easie way to draw those lines on the ceiling of a room, by the trianguler quadrant : also, the use of the same instrument in navigation, both for observation, and operation : performing the use of several sea-instruments still in use /
    by Brown, John, philomath
    Published 1671
    “...Printed by John Darby, for John Wingfield ... and by John Brown ... and by John Seller ...,...”
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    The description and use of a joynt-rule : fitted with lines for the finding the hour of the day and azimuth of the sun, to any particular latitude, or, to apply the same generally to any latitude : together with all the uses of Gunters quadrant applyed thereunto ... /
    by Brown, John, philomath
    Published 1661
    “...Printed by T.J. for J. Brown and H. Sutton, and sold at their houses,...”
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    The description and use of the trianguler quadrant : being a particular and general instrument, useful at land or sea, both for observation and operation : more universally useful, portable and convenient, than any other yet discovered, with its uses in arithmetick, geometry, superficial and solid, astronomy, dyalling, three wayes, gaging, navigation, in a method not before used /
    by Brown, John, philomath
    Published 1671
    “...Printed by John Darby, for John Wingfield, and are to be sold at his house ... and by John Brown...”
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    The practical gauger : arithmetical and instrumental: by lines commonly put on four-foot rules; usually made for the use of the officers in the duty of excise. With the full application thereof in whatsoever may concern a gauger in his geometrical affairs, for all sorts of close or open vessels. With plain directions to extract the square and cube-root by arithmetick. And the line of proportion made more easie and familiar to any capacity, than hitherto hath been. By John Brown.
    by Brown, John, philomath
    Published 1678
    “...printed by J.D. for John Brown and Rob. Morden, and sold at the Sphere and Sun-Dial in the Minories...”
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