Book:Henry van Etten/Mathematicall Recreations

Henry van Etten: Mathematicall Recreations

Published $\text {1633}$ (translated by William Oughtred)
In English:

Mathematical Recreations

Subject Matter

• Recreational mathematics: an anthology of arithmetical tricks and questions, including some original puzzles.

• Based on 1612: Claude-Gaspar Bachet: Problèmes Plaisans et Delectables qui se font par les Nombres.

• Includes work from The Greek Anthology Book XIV

• Some of the first conjuring tricks, including The Inexhaustible Barrel.

• Mechanical puzzles, experiments in optics and hydrostatics, the manufacturing of fireworks, and other questions of basic physics

Contents

• How to keep wine fresh without ice or snow in the middle of summer

• How to break a staff in one blow when it is balanced on $2$ glasses of water (attributed to Aristotle)

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Further Editions

• 1624: H. van Etten: Récréations Mathématiques

Cited by

• 1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles

Sources

• 1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Henry van Etten