156 results filtered with: Mathematics - Early works to 1800
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The young gentleman's course of mathematicks. Containing the more useful and easy elements of arithmetick, geometry, trigonometry, mechanicks, opticks, astronomy, chronology, dialling. In three volumes. By Edward Wells, D.D. rector of Cotesbach in Leicestershire.
Wells, Edward, 1667-1727.Date: 1714- Books
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Reflections on the communication of motion by impact and gravity. By the Rev. Isaac Milner, M. A. Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge. Read at the Royal Society, Feb. 26, 1778.
Milner, Isaac, 1750-1820.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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A new and comprehensive system of philology; or, a treatise of the literary arts and sciences, according to their present state. ... . Containing the following Sciences. I. Theology, as a Science. II. Ethics; or Moral Philosophy. III. Judaism; or the Hebrew Revelation. IV. Paganism; or Heathen Divinity. V. Christianity; or Christian Revelation. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]-64- Books
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A compendious course of practical mathematicks. Particularly adapted to the use of the gentlemen of the army and navy. In three volumes. For the most part translated from the tracts publish'd in French by P. Hoste, Professor of Mathematicks in the Royal Academy of Thoulon. By William Webster. ... containing, Arithmetick Vulgar and Decimal.
Hoste, Paul, 1652-1700.Date: M.DCC.XXX, [1730]- Books
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The line of proportion or numbers, commonly called Gunter's line made easie : by the which may be measured all manner of superficies and solids as boards, glass, pavement, timber, stone, &c. : also, how to perform the same by a line of equal parts, drawn from the centre of a two-foot rule : whereunto is added, The use of the line of proportion improved : whereby all manner of superficies and solids may both exactly and speedily be measured, without the help of pen or compasses, by inspection, looking only upon the ruler / by William Leybourn.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716Date: 1684- Books
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Analysis per quantitatum series, fluxiones, ac differentias: cum enumeratione linearum tertii ordinis.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.Date: M.DCC.XI. [1711]- Books
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Institutes of arithmetic, elementary and practical: the mensuration of surfaces and solids, and the use of logarithms in all the parts of arithmetic: to which are added, tables of annuities, Lives, &c. The Whole Designed as a Directory or Text-Book for the Use of Schools. By William Gordon, Master of the Mercantile Academy, Edinburgh.
Gordon, William, active 1763-1809.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Mathesis juvenilis: or a course of mathematicks for young students, ... Made English from the Latin of Jo. Christopher Sturmius, ... By George Vaux, M.D. In three volumes. ...
Sturm, Johann Christophorus, 1635-1703.Date: 1708-09- Books
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Poor Robin's book of knowledge : Shewing the effects of the planets, and other astronomical constellations. Excellent receipts for curing of most distempers incident to man. Useful observations in chirurgery and husbandry. With directions for ordering cattle, and medicines for the many diseases they are liable to. Short observations on each month in the year. A discourse of the natural cause of snow, hail, and rain. Of the golden number, of weights and measures used in England. With directions for making all manner of bonds, bills, releases, indentures, wills, &c. With many other pleasant and profitable rarities too long here to incert. According to those undeniable grounds and axioms delivered by the ancient philosophers, and astronomers, Pythagoras, Aristotle, Haley, Albert, Philo Judæus, and Ptolomy. Experienced by the 21 years study and practice of Poor Robin, a well-wisher to the mathematicks.
Poor RobinDate: 1688- Books
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Young mathematician's guide: being a plain and easy introduction to the mathematicks. In five parts. Viz. I. Arithmetick, Vulgar and Decimal, with all the useful Rules; and a general Method of extracting the Roots of all single Powers. II. Algebra, or Arithmetick in Species; wherein the Method of raising and resolving Equations is rendered easy; and illustrated with Variety of Examples, and numerical Questions. Also the whole Business of Interest and Annuities, &c. performed by the Pen. III. The Elements of Geometry contracted, and analytically demonstrated; with a new and easy Method of finding the Circle's Periphery and Area to any assigned Exactness, by one Equation only: Also a new Way of making Signs and Tangents. IV. Conick Sections, wherein the chief Properties, &c. of the Ellipsis, Parabola, and Hyperbola, are clearly demonstrated. V. The Arithmetick of Infinites explained and rendered Easy; with its Application to superficial and solid Geometry. With an appendix of practical gauging. By John Ward.
Ward, John, active 1698-1709.Date: 1769- Books
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Sir Isaac Newton's two treatises of the quadrature of curves, and Analysis by Equations of an infinite Number of Terms, explained: containing The Treatises themselves, translated into English, with a large Commentary; in which the Demonstrations are supplied where wanting, the Doctrine illustrated, and the whole accommodated to the Capacities of Beginners, for whom it is chiefly designed. By John Stewart, A. M. Professor of Mathematicks in the Marishal College and University of Aberdeen.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.Date: M.DCC.XLV. [1745]- Books
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The young mathematician's guide: being a plain and easy introduction to the mathematicks. In five parts. Viz. I. Arithmetick, Vulgar and Decimal, with all the useful Rules; And a General Method of Extracting the Roots of all Single Powers. II. Algebra, or Arithmetick in Species; wherein the Method of Raising and Resolving Equations is rendered Easy; and illustrated with Variety of Examples, and Numerical Questions. Also the whole Business of Interest and Annuities, &c. performed by the Pen. III. The Elements of Geometry, contracted, and Analytically demonstrated; with a new and easy Method of finding the Circle's Periphery and Area to any assigned Exactness, by one Equation only: Also a new way of making Sines and Tangents. IV. Conick Sections, wherein the chief Properties, &c. of the Ellipsis, Parabola, and Hyperbola, are clearly demonstrated. V. The Arithmetick of Infinites explained, and rendered Easy; with it's Application to superficial and solid Geometry. With an appendix of practical gauging. By John Ward. The tenth edition, carefully corrected. To which is added, a supplement, containing the history of logarithms and an index to the whole Work.
Ward, John, active 1698-1709.Date: 1758- Books
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An easy introduction to mechanics, geometry, Plane Trigonometry, Measuring Heights and Distances, Optics, astronomy. To which is prefixed, an essay on the advancement of learning by various modes of recreation. By Mr. John Ryland, of Northampton. Illustrated with twelve copper-plates. For the Use of Schools, as well as private Gentlemen.
Ryland, John, 1723-1792.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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The English school-master completed: Containing several tables of common English words, from one, to six, seven and eight syllables; both whole and divided, according to the rules of true spelling; with prayers, and graces, both before and after meat, and rules for children's behaviour at all times and places, with several other necessaries, suitable to the capacities of children and youth. Also, brief and easy rules for the true and exact spelling, reading, and writing of English, according to the present pronunciation thereof in both the universities, and city of London. To which is added, an appendix, containing the principles of arithmatick, with an account of coins, weights, measure, time, &c. copies of letters, titles of honour, suitable for men of all degrees, and qualities; bills of pracels, bills of exchange, bills of debt, receipts, and several other rules and observations fit for a youth's accomplishment in the way of trade. By John Hawkins, school-master, at St. George's Church in Southwark.
Hawkins, John, active 17th century.Date: 1721- Books
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Johannis Wallisii, S.S. Th.D., geometriæ professoris Saviliani in celeberrima Academia Oxoniensi Operum mathematicorum pars prima.
Wallis, John, 1616-1703Date: 1657- Books
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Meditationes analyticæ, ab Edvardo Waring, Regiae Societatis Et Academiae Bononiensis Instituti Socio, Et Matheseos Apud Cantab Professore Lucasiano.
Waring, Edward, 1734-1798.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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A new and comprehensive system of mathematical institutions, agreeable to the present state of the Newtonian mathesis. ... . Containing the Institutes, or Principles of I. Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal. II. Logarithms. III. Algebra. IV. Geometry. V. Of Plain Trigonometry. VI. Of Conic Sections. Vii. Fluxions. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]-64- Books
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Mathesis enucleata: or, the elements of the mathematicks. To which is annexed, an introduction to specious analysis, or, algebra. By J. Christ. Sturmius, Professor of Philosophy and Mathematicks in the University of Altorf. Made English by J. R. A. M. and R. S. S.
Sturm, Johann Christophorus, 1635-1703.Date: M.DCC.XXIV. [1724]- Books
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The young mathematician's companion, being a compleat tutor to the mathematicks; Whereby the Young Beginner may be early Instructed; those who have lost the Opportunity of learning in their Youth may with very little Pains, and in a short Time become Proficients in this delightful and instructive Science, and such whose Business it is to teach, may receive much Useful Assistance. Containing, I. Vulgar and Decimal Arithmetic, Extraction of Roots by Natural Numbers, and by Logarithms. II. Description and Use of the Sector, with the most useful Definitions, Theorems, and Problems in Geometry. III. Plain and Spherical Trigonometry, Astronomy, Dyalling, and Surveying of Land. IV. Curious Discourses, calculated to render a Practical Knowledge of the Mathematicks more easy and familiar. The Whole Interspersed with delightful and Useful Questions, and adorned with proper Schemes in order to excite the Curiosity, and form the Minds of Youth. By Charles Leadbetter, Teacher of the Mathematicks.
Leadbetter, Charles, active 1728.Date: [1748]- Books
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Synopsis mathematica universalis: or a system of the mathematics, for young students, and such as have not arrived to a great Perfection in those Studies. Containing Variety of useful Practices, in Arithmetic, Geometry, Trigonometry, Astronomy, Dialling, Chronology, Geography, Optics, Catoptrics, Dioptrics, Statics, Together with astionomical and geographical tables with their uses, and also the use of the Globes: the whole being Illustrated with several Mathematical Sculptures on Copper Plates. By Venterus Mandey, Philomat.
Hainlin, Johann Jacob, 1588-1660.Date: [1709]- Books
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Mathematical tracts of the late Benjamin Robins, Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society, and Engineer General to the Honourable the East India Company. In two volumes. ... . Containing his New Principles of Gunnery, with several subsequent Discourses on the same Subject, the greatest Part never before printed. Published by James Wilson, M.D.
Robins, Benjamin, 1707-1751.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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The marrow of the mathematicks, made plain and easie to the understanding of any ordinary capacity. Containing The Doctrines of Arithmetick, Geometry, Astronomy, Gauging, the use of the Sector, Surveying, Dyalling, and the Art of Navigation, &c. Illustrated with several Cuts for the better Explanation of the whole Matter. After a new, compendious, easy method, by W. Pickering, Merchant-Adventurer. To which is added, measuring surfaces and solids, such as Plank, Timber, Stone, &c. Joiners, Carpenters, Bricklayers, Glasiers, Painters and Paviers Work: Each Proposition being wrought Vulgarly, Decimally, Practically and Instrumentally. With a small tract of gauging wine, ale, or malt, without Inches, or Division, by which any one may Gauge Ten Backs, or Floors of Malt, in the same time another shall Gauge One, by the way now used: Altogether New, and submitted to the Censure of the Honourable Commissioners of Excise. By J. L. P. M.
Pickering, W. (William).Date: 1710- Books
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Johannis Wallis S.T.D., geometriæ professoris Saviliani, in celeberrima Academia Oxoniensi Opera mathematica.
Wallis, John, 1616-1703Date: 1693-99- Books
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The catechism of the author of The minute philosopher fully answer'd. By J. Walton.
Walton, Jacob, -1743.Date: 1735- Books
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The young measurer's complete guide; or a new and universal treatise of mensuration, both with regard to theory and practice. ... The second edition, with many improvements. By D. Fenning. ...
Fenning, Daniel.Date: 1779