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Memoria technica: or, a new method of artificial memory: Applied to, and exemplified in, Chronology, History, Geography, Astronomy: Also Jewish, Grecian, and Roman Coins, Weights, Measures, &c, with tables proper to the respective sciences; and memorial lines adapted to each table. By Richard Grey, D. D. Rector of Hinton, in Northamptonshire.
Grey, Richard, 1694-1771.Date: 1790- Books
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The universal Library: or, compleat summary of science. Containing above sixty select treatises. I. Of Theology, Philosophy, Metaphysicks, Ethicks, Oeconomy, Religion, Games used at Ancient Festivals, Cosmography, Elements, Geography, Hydrography, Travel, Government, Chronology, History, Laws, Coins, Medals, Weights and Measures, Meteors, Rarities, Mankind in the Different Sexes of Men and Women, Physick, Chyrurgery, Chymistry, Cookery and Dyet. II. Of Animals, Vegetables and Agriculture, Gems, Metals, Grammar and Languages, Hieroglyphicks, Poetry, Logick, Rhetorick, Musick, Arithmetick, Geometry, Architecture, Surveying, Gauging, Dyalling, Navigation; The Military Art, Fortification, Gunnery, Astronomy, Astrology, Augury, Magick, Mathematical Magick, Dreams and Apparitions, Heraldry, Painting, Colours and Dying, Opticks, Angling, Fowling, Inventions, Ignorance in the Ancients, and Errors among the People. With Divers Secrets, Experiments and Curiosities therein. In two volumes.
Curzon, H. (Henry).Date: 1722- Books
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The laws respecting parish matters. Containing the several offices and duties of churchwardens, overseers of the poor, constables, watchmen, and Other Parish Officers. The Laws Concerning Rates and Assessments, Settlements and Removals of the Poor, and of the Poor in General. The Laws relating to Repairs of Highways, Weights and Measures, &c. The whole laid down in a plain and easy Manner: in which all technical Terms of Law are familiarly explained. As collected and digested from the several reports, and other books of authority, Up to the Present Time. Also an appendix of precedents; Comprising a great Variety of the most approved Forms of all such Instruments as most frequently occur in the Management of Parish Affairs. The second edition, improved and much enlarged. By the author of The laws of landlord and tenant, Law of Wills, Laws of Masters and Servants, &c.
Bird, James Barry.Date: [1799]- Books
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Discourses of the ecclesiastical and civil polity of the Jews. Viz. Of their Courts of Judicature. Laws concerning Tithes. Institution of the Priesthood. Their Liturgy. Their Schools. Their Feasts, Fasts, Coins, Weights and Measures. Written by Isaac Abendana, a Learned Jew. Being more particularly very Useful for Divines of all Perswasions.
Abendana, Isaac, 1650-1720.Date: 1706- Books
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The universal library: or, compleat summary of science. Containing above sixty select treatises. In two volumes. I. Of Theology, Philosophy, Metaphysicks, Ethicks, Oeconomy, Religion, Games used at Ancient Festivals, Cosmography, Elements, Geography, Hydrography, Travel, Government, Chronology, History, Laws, Coins, Medals, Weights and Measures, Meteors, Rarities, Mankind in the Different Sexes of Men and Women, Physick, Chyrurgery, Chymistry, Cookery and Dyet. II. Of Animals, Vegetables and Agriculture, Gems, Metals, Grammar and Languages, Hieroglyphicks, Poetry, Logick, Rhetorick, Musick, Arithmetick, Geometry, Architecture, Surveying, Gauging, Dyalling, Navigation; The Military Art, Fortification, Gunnery, Astronomy, Astrology, Augury, Magick, Mathematical Magick, Dreams and Apparitions, Heraldry, Painting, Colours and Dying, Opticks, Angling, Fowling, Inventions, Ignorance in the Ancients, and Errors among the People. With Divers Secrets, Experiments and Curiosities therein.
Curzon, H. (Henry).Date: 1712- Books
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The exact dealer refined: being a useful companion for all traders. In three parts. Containing I. A Description of the Commodities, Coins, Weights and Measures of Great Britain, and its neighbouring Countries. With Useful Directions about Entring and Taking up Goods at the Custom house: Instructions about Bills of Exchange, and the Keeping of Books of Accompts. The way of Recovering Debts; likewise Exact Tables of Accompts ready cast up II. Containing a plain Institution of Arithmetick in all its Parts; with an excellent and easie new way of multiplying Foot-Measure in Feet and Inches, by Feet and Inches, without Reduction and applied to the Measuring of Carpenters Joyners, Painters, Plaisterers, Glasiers, and Bricklayers Work, &c. And of Solid Timber, &c Also the whole Art of Gauging, with several curious Tables. And very necessary Observations relating to the Measuring of Land. III. Containing the Travellers Guide through all the Principal Roads in England. An Account of Carriers Inns, and Days of going out. Also the Rates of Post-Letters. With other Matter not before made publick The fifth edition, enlarged. By J H. author of The secretary's guide.
Hill, John, active 1712.Date: [1702]- Books
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Practical arithmetick in four books, I. Of Whole Numbers, Weights, and Measures. II. Fractions Vulgar and Decimal. III. Mercantile Arithmetick. IV. Extractions, Progressions, Logarithms, &c. Extracted from the larger entire treatise, carried on by subscription, and adapted to the commerce of Ireland, as well as that of Great Britain. for the Use of Schools. By John Gough. Carefully revised, with many additions in the Various Rules, by Robert Telfair, of the Belfast Academy. To which is added, an appendix of algebra, by William Atkinson, Late Teacher of Mathematicks, and Now Corrected by his Son, William Atkinson, Mathematician in Belfast.
Gough, John, 1721-1791.Date: M,DCC,XCVII. [1797]- Books
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A treatise upon money, coins, and exchange, in regard both to theory and practice: giving a full and particular account of the nature and origin of that most useful and intricate part of commerce. With Forms of Bills mostly in Use; and the Custom of Merchants relating thereto, in an Easy and Familiar Method. As also Tables relating to the Conformity of different Weights and Measures. By Mr. John Hewitt, Accountant.
Hewitt, John.Date: 1755- Books
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A new and compendious treatise of arithmetick, in whole numbers and fractions, vulgar and decimal. Wherein all the Necessary Rules of this Science are laid down in the Plainest and most Familiar Terms, and the Reason and Foundation of them demonstrated. With a Large and Copious Appendix, Containing several useful Tables of Monies, Weights, and Measures; as likewise a great Variety of Instructive and Entertaining Questions, relating to all the different Branches of this Art: Intermix'd with familiar Directions, and many curious Remarks. The Whole being Design'd and Compos'd not only with a View of advancing the Young Students in the Practice of this Fundamental Part of the Mathematicks, but also for the Information of those who are desirous of being thoroughly skill'd in the Theory and Principles of it. By Thomas Weston, Late Master of the Academy at Greenwich.
Weston, Thomas, Master of the Academy at Greenwich.Date: M,DCC,XXXVI. [1736]- Books
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Arithmetical questions, on a new plan: designed as a supplement to the author's engraved Introduction to arithmetic; and Intended to Answer the Double Purpose of Arithmetical Instruction and Miscellaneous Information. To Which are Serjoined, Observations on Weights and Measures, with a Complete Collection of Arithmetical Tables, and Explanatory Remarks. For the Use of Young Ladies. By William Butler, Teacher of Writing, Accounts, and Geography, in Ladies Schools, and in Private Families.
Butler, William, 1748-1822.Date: 1795- Books
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The travels of the holy patriarchs, prophets, judges, kings, our saviour Christ and his apostles, as they are related in the Old and New Testaments. With A Description of the Towns and Places to which they Travelled, and how many English Miles they stood from Jerusalem. Also, a short Treatise of the Weights, Monys, and Measures mentioned in the Scriptures, reduced to our English Valuations, Quantity, and Weight. By Henry Bunting.
Bünting, Heinrich, 1545-1606.Date: 1705- Books
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A treatise upon money, coins, and exchange, in regard both to theory and practice: giving a full and particular account of the nature and origin of that most useful and intricate part of commerce. With Forms of Bills mostly in Use; and the Custom of Merchants relating thereto, in an Easy and Familiar Method. As also Tables relating to the Conformity of different Weights and Measures. By Mr. John Hewitt.
Hewitt, John.Date: M.DCC.XL. [1740]- Books
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The lady's accomptant and best accomplisher. In three parts. Containing I. The first Four Rules in Integers only, likewise Reduction, with the Tables of Money, Weights, Measures, &c. II. Arithmetic in whole and compound Numbers, and the several Rules exemplified in a variety of useful Questions with their Answers annexed; likewise a Collection of Questions, for the greater trial of the foregoing Rules, and to which are added a few diverting ones. III. 1st. An Alphabetical List of Abbreviations of Words. 2d. An Index of Marks, Stops, or Pauses in Sentences, with their Use and Explanation. 3d. Superscriptions, and Forms of Address. 4th. Complimentary Cards, with Copies of Letters on several Occasions. 5th Forms of Receipts, Notes of Hand, Bills of Parcels, Inland and foreign Bills of Exchange. 6th. Moral and entertaining Sentences in Prose and Verse, on Advice, Virtue, Religion, Wisdom, Learning, Industry, Frugality, Honesty, &c. &c. proper for Youth of either Sex, either to transcribe or study, by way of Evening Task. The whole being designed for the use of schools, as a proper Question Book, and for the Improvement of the Fair-Sex. in good Sense and correct English. By Charles Vyse, Teacher of the Mathematics, Author of the Tutor's Guide, and late Master of the Academy in Portland Street, Cavendish Square; but now Master of the Academy in Old Round Court, in the Strand.
Vyse, Charles, active 1770-1815.Date: 1771- Books
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The exact dealer refined: being a useful companion for all traders. In three parts. Containing I. A Description of the Commodities Coins, Weights and Measures of Great Britain, and its neighbouring Countries. With Useful Directions about Entring and Taking up Goods at the Custom-House: Instructions about Bills of Exchange, and the Keeping of Books of Accompts. The way of Recovering Debts; likewise Exact Tables of Accompts ready cast up. II. Containing a plain Institution of Arithmetick in all its Parts; with an excellent and easie new way of multiplying Foot-Measure in Feet and Inches by Feet and Inches, without Reduction, and applied to the Measuring of Carpenters, Joyners, Painters, Plaisterers Glasiers, and Bricklayers Work, &c. And of Solid Timber, &c. Also the whole Art of Gauging, with several curious Tables. And very necessary Observations relating to the Measuring of Land III. Containing the Travellers Guide through all the Principal Roads in England. An Account of Fairs, Carriers Inns, and Days of going out. Also the Rates of Post-Letters. With other Matters not before made publick. The sixth edition, enlarged. By J.H. author of The secretary's guide.
Hill, John, active 1712.Date: [1706]- Books
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An inquiry into the reasonableness and consequences of an union with Scotland. Containing a brief deduction of what hath been done, designed, or proposed, in the matter of the Union, during the last Age. A Scheme of an Union, as accommodated to the present Circumstances, of the two Nations. Also States, of the respective Revenues, Debts, Weights, Measures, Taxes and Impositions, and of other Facts of moment. With Observations thereupon. As communicated to Laurence Philips, Esq; near York.
Wednesdays Club in Friday-Street.Date: 1706- Books
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Book-Keeping, in the true Italian form of debtor and creditor by way of double entry; or, practical book-keeping exemplified, from the precepts of the late ingenious D. Dowling, author of Mercantile arithmetic. With the Addition of Computations in Exchange, and Tables shewing the Proportion that the Weights and Measures of the principal Cities in Europe bear to each other. By William Jackson, accountant.
Jackson, William (Accountant)Date: [1792]- Books
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Book-Keeping in the true Italian form of debtor and creditor by way of double entry; or, practical book-keeping exemplified, from the precepts of the late ingenious D. Dowling, author of Mercantile arithmetic. With the Addition of Computations in Exchange, and Tables shewing the Proportion that the Weights and Measures of the principal Cities in Europe bear to each other. By William Jackson, accountant.
Jackson, William (Accountant)Date: [1792?]- Books
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The captains directory being translated extracts of the proclamation of the High & Mighty Lords the States General of the United Netherlands relative to foreign ships trading to and from Holland. Also a list of the customs in Holland inwards & outwards; to which is added, A List of such Goods as are exempt from Premium; Goods subject to excise; List of Pile Dues, Weights, Measures, Tunnage, & Coins; Directions necessary to be Observ'd by Captains destin'd to the River of Bordeaux with the most Essential Extracts regarding the Pilots for the Mase and Goree, with a plan of the different Regulated Pilotages; the Cost of Ballast &c2. By T. M. English ships broker, at Rotterdam.
United Provinces of the Netherlands. Staten Generaal.Date: [1726?]- Books
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Observations on medical weights and measures.
Wilson, Charles.Date: [1859?]- Books
Our weights and measures : a practical treatise on the standard weights and measures in use in the British Empire / With some account of the metric system. By H.J. Chaney.
Chaney, Henry James, 1842-1906.Date: 1897- Books
A dictionary of weights, measures and units / Donald Fenna.
Fenna, Donald, 1932-Date: 2002- Books
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Notes on Egyptian weights and measures / F.L. Griffith.
Griffith, F. Ll. (Francis Llewellyn), 1862-1934.Date: [1892]- Books
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Men and measures : a history of weights and measures, ancient and modern / by Edward Nicholson.
Nicholson, Edward.Date: 1912- Books
The weights and measures of England / R.D. Connor.
Connor, R. D.Date: 1987- Books
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An inquiry into the English system of weights and measures / by J.H. Alexander.
Alexander, J. H. (John Henry), 1812-1867.Date: 1857