Thomas Malton the elder (1726 - 1801)

Thomas Malton the elder

A Compleat Treatise On Perspective, In Theory And Practice; On The True Principles Of Dr. Brook Taylor. Made Clear, In Theory, By Various Moveable Schemes, And Diagrams; And Reduced To Practice, In The Most Familiar and Intelligent Manner; Shewing How To Delineate All Kinds Of Regular Objects, By Rule. The Theory And Projection Of Shadows, By Sun-Shine, And By Candle-Light. The Effects Of Reflected Light, On Objects; Their Reflected Images, On The Surface Of Water, And On Polished, Plane Surfaces, In All Positions. The Whole Explicitly Treated; And Illustrated, In A Great Variety Of Familiar Examples; In Four Books. Embellished With An Elegant Frontispiece, And Forty-Eight Plates. Containing Diagrams, Views, And Original Designs, In Architecture, &c. Neatly Engraved. All Originals; Invented, Delineated, And, Great Part, Engraved By The Author, Thomas Malton. The Second Edition, Corrected and improved; With Large Additions. - London:: [1778]

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Thomas Malton the elder

A royal road to geometry : or, An easy and familiar introduction to the mathematics. In two parts. I. Practical geometry, with applications, and a familiar introduction; for the use of mechanics &c. Also, the construction of the ellipsis; with some of its chief properties demonstrated. II. Elements of geometry abridged. Containing the whole substance of Euclid's first six, the eleventh and twelfth Books; with several other, useful and valuable, theorems; treated in the most brief, easy, and intelligent manner; for the use of schools, &c. Being an attempt to render that most useful and necessary science more universal, and practically applicable. Interspersed with notes, critical, explanatory, and instructive. / By Thomas Malton. To which is annexed, an Appendix, on the Theory of Mensuration of Superficies and Solids, as deduced from the Elements. - London: [1774]

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