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Elements of mathematics. Comprehending geometry. Conic sections. Mensuration. Spherics. Illustrated with 30 copper-plates. For the use of schools. By John West, Assistant Teacher of Mathematics in the University of St. Andrews.
West, John, 1756-1818.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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Euclide's Elements; the whole fifteen books, compendiously demonstrated: with Archimedes's theorems of the sphere and cylinder, investigated by the method of indivisibles. Also, Euclide's data, and a brief treatise of regular solids. By Isaac Barrow, D.D. late Master of Trinity College in Cambridge. The whole carefull corrected, and illustrated with copper plates. To which is now added an appendix, Containing, The Nature, Construction, and Application of Logarithms. By J. Barrow, Author of Navigatio Britannica, &c
Euclid.Date: 1751- Books
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The elements of geometry, in which the principal propositions of Euclid, Archimedes, and others, are demonstrated after the most easy manner. To which is added, a collection of useful geometrical problems. Also, the Doctrine of Proportion, Arithmetical and Geometrical. Together with a general Method of arguing by proportional Quantities. By William Emerson.
Emerson, William, 1701-1782.Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]- Books
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The new royal road to geometry, and familiar introduction to the mathematics. Part I. Elements of Geometry Abridged. Containing the whole Substance of Euclid's first six, the eleventh and twelfth Books; with many other, useful and valuable, Theorems; treated in the most brief, easy, and intelligent manner; being an attempt to render the knowledge of that most useful and necessary Science more general. With Notes interspersed, critical, explanatory, and instructive. By Thomas Malton, Sen. To which is annexed, an Appendix, on the Theory of Mensuration of Superficies and Solids, as deduced from the Elements; with some Properties of Ellipses demonstrated.
Malton, Thomas, 1726-1801.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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A system of the mathematics, containing the Euclidean geometry, plane and spherical trigonometry; the projection of the sphere, both orthographic and stereographic, astronomy, the Use of the Globes and Navigation: The Manner of Computing the Appulses of the Moon to the Fixed Stars, and their Occultations by the Interposition of Her Body, very useful for determining the Difference of Longitude between Places. With an Account of the several Methods Proposed and made Use of, by the most celebrated Astronomers for ascertaining the same. New Solar Tables, with their Construction and Use. Tables of the Sun's Place, Right Ascension, Declination, Equation of Natural Days for every Four Years; with Tables of Variation to make them serve for a Hundred Years to come; and a Catalogue of the Right-Ascensions, Declinations, &c. of the most Eminent Fixed Stars: Deduced from the Flamstedian Observations. The Construction of the Meridional Parts, Logarithms, Sines, Tangents and Secants, both Natural and Artificial, by the Newtonian Series. With an Account of the Cycles, Periods, Epoch's, Epacts, Kalendars, &c. Also A Table of Meridional Parts for every Degree and Minute of Latitude to the Ten Thousandth Place in Decimals, calculated de Novo Together with a Large and very Useful Table of the Latitudes and Longitudes of Places; the whole being designed for the Use of the Mathematical School, founded by King Charles II. ... . By James Hodgson, Master of the Royal Mathematical School in Christ's Hospital, and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Hodgson, James, 1672-1755.Date: 1723