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The Builders compleat assistant, or, a library of arts and sciences, absolutely necessary to be understood by builders and workmen in general. Viz. I. Arithmetick, Vulgar and Decimal in whole Numbers and Fractions. II. Geometry, Lineal, Superficial and Solid. III. Architecture, Universal. IV. Mensuration. V. Plain Trigonometry. VI. Surveying of Land, &c. VII. Mechanick Powers. VIII. Hydrostaticks. Illustrated by above Thirteen Hundred Examples of Lines, Superficies, Solids, Mouldings, Pedestals, Columns, Pilasters, Entablatures, Pediments, Imposts, Block Cornices, Rustick Quoins, Frontispieces, Arcades, Portico's, &c. proportioned By Modules and Minutes, According to Andrea Palladio. And by equal parts. Likewise, great Varieties of Trussed Roofs, Timber Bridges, Centerings, Arches, Groins, Twisted Rails, Compartments, Obelisques, Vases, Pedestals for Busto's, Sun-Dials, Fonts, &c. and Methods for raising heavy Bodies by the Force of Levers, Pulleys, Axis in Peritrochio, Screws, and Wedges; as also Water, by the common Pump, Crane, &c. wherein The Properties, and Pressure of the Air, on Water, &c. is explained. The whole exemplified by 77 large Quarto Copper-Plates. By B. Langley.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: [1750]- Books
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The description and use of a case of mathematical instruments; particularly of all the lines contained on the plain scale, the sector, the gunter, and the proportional compasses. With a practical application exemplified in many useful Cases of Geometry, and Plain and Spherical Trigonometry. The whole illustrated by copper-plate figures By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1771]- Books
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Observations on the nature, the use and abuse of the Cheltenham waters; Including Some Conjectures and Queries on Different Saline Compositions. A new edition. Prepared by the author, a little before his death. In which several additional remarks are occasionally interspersed. By J. Smith, M. D. Gavilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford.
Smith, Joseph, -approximately 1798.Date: [1798]- Books
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The description and use of a case of mathematical instruments; particularly of all the lines contained on the plain scale, the Sector, the Gunter, and the Proportional Compasses, with a practical application, Exemplified in many useful Cases of Geometry, and Plain and Spherical Trigonometry The whole illustrated by copper-plate figures. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: 1800?]- Books
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The elements of Euclid: with select theorems out of Archimedes. By the Learned Andrew Tacquet. To which are added, Practical Corollaries, shewing the Uses of many of the Propositions. By William Whiston, M. A. Mr. Lucas's Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge. In this Eighth Edition is added an Appendix of Practical Geometry, with Forty New Figures, and a Brief and Independent Demonstration of certain Select and most useful Propositions. By S. F.
Euclid.Date: 1753- Books
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Every young man's companion: containing directions for spelling, reading, and writing English. Instructions in the Art of Penmanship. Epistolary Writing, containing Letters of Compliment and Business. Forms of Address to Persons of all Ranks. Arithmetic, Vulgar, Fractional, Decimal, Logarithmetical, and Algebraical. Practical Geometry. Astronomy, or an Account of the Globe, fixed Stars, Planets and Comets. Geography, or a general Account of the World, and a particular Description of Great-Britain and Ireland, Plain Trigonometry. The Resolution of Astronomical Questions. The making and fixing all Kinds of Dials. The measuring Superficies, Solids, Timber, Carpenters, Bricklayers, Plaisterers, Painters, Glasiers, and Joiners Work, &c. Surveying of Land. Gauging of Casks, with a Description of Everard's Gauging-Rule. The Gardener's Calendar, shewing what Work is to be done every Month in the Kitchen, Flower, and Fruit Garden. Farriery, or the Art of knowing and curing the Diseases of Horses. Useful Receipts of various Kinds. The Art of making Rockets, and artificial Fireworks. The Method of Painting [Dials], Rooms, Timber Work, and Mezzotinto Prints on Glass, and of the making and mixing Colours. The Art of colouring Maps, Plots, and Prints. Together with a great variety of cuts and tables, Accurately drawn and made for the more ready Performance of the different Operations taught in this Treatise. By W. Gordon, Teacher of the Mathematics.
Gordon, W.Date: 1755- Books
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An appendix to the English translation of Commandine's Euclid; wherein the eleventh and twelfth books of the elements are made easy to the meanest capacity, by exhibiting the solids themselves to the eye, instead of their several Pictures or Projections laid down by the several Writers of Elements of Geometry. Atract useful and necessary for Painters, Builders, Gardeners, and all Persons who would inform themselves demonstratively in Perspective, Mensuration, Sphericks, &c. or qualify themselves to read the Works of those who have written farther on solid Geometry. With AN Introduction. Explaining the Projection used by the Ancients, and shewing its Excellency to any other for this Purpose. By Samuel Cunn.
Cunn, Mr. (Samuel).Date: MDCCXXV. [1725]- Books
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Every young man's companion. Containing. I. rules and directions for reading and writing English. II. A familiar Treatise of Rhetoric, suited to the lowest Capacity. III. Instructions in the Art of Penmanship. IV. Of the Care of forming the Manners. V. Directions for writing Letters, Forms of Address, &c. VI. Practical Arithmetic. Practical Geometry. Vii. Of the Creation of the World. Of the Books of the Old and New Testament. Viii. Of the Circles of the Globe, fixed Stars, Planets, and Comets. IX. Geography; containing the Divisions of the Earth. Of Climates; Explanation of the Terms; general Division of Earth and Sea; different Religions, Languages and Colours of the Inhabitants. Account of Europe, Great-Britain and Ireland, &c. X. Births and Characters of the Monarchs of England, from William the Conqueror to his present Majesty. XI. History of the World, from the Creation to the Assyrian Empire. XII. History of the four Great Monarchies. XIII. Course of Natural Philosophy. XIV. Plain Trigonometry. Astronomical Questions. XV. Dialling, Measuring, Surveying, and Gauging. XVI. Useful Receipts of various Kinds. XVII. Of artificial Fire-Works; how to prepare various Kinds. XVIII. Of printing Mezzotinto Prints, Window Blinds, colouring Prints and Maps, colouring in Oil and painting Timber Work. XIX. Forms of Business in the Mercantile Way, and Forms in Law of general Use. XX. Concise and easy Method of writing Short-Hand. XXI. Mystery of Free Masonry explained. XXII. The common Notion of Spirits, Apparitions and Witches; their Power and Feats exposed. XXIII. General & particular Directions for drawing with the Pencil, and shadowing with Indian Ink. XXIV. List of many things necessary to be known, & &c. Together with A Great Variety of cuts and tables. By W. Gordon, Teacher of the Mathematicks.
Gordon, W.Date: M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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The universal navigator; or, A Comprehensive Treatise of navigation; containing, I. The most useful Problems in Geometry, Measuring of Plank, Timber Bales, Boxes, and Tunnage of Ships. II. Trigonometry with its application to the taking of Heights and Distances, accessible and inaccessible. III. Navigation, (viz.) Plain Sailing, Traverse Sailing, Mercator, Middle Latitude, and Parallel Sailing, with all the several examples wrought Geometrically, Trignometrically, by Logarithms, Arithmetically, by Natural Sines and Tangents, Instrumentally, and by Tables of Latitude and Departure. To which is annexed a curious Collection of Questions to exercise all the above kind of Sailing, with a large and correct Table of Difference of Latitude and Departure, and Meridional parts. Also a Table of Latitude and Longitude of Places. IV. Great Circle Sailing, with a curious Collection of Questions applied thereto, several of which have never appeared in any Treatise of Navigation extant. Oblique Sailing, Turning to Windward, Sailing in Currents, with a Collection of Questions both curious, useful, and entertaining, to exercise the same. V. The Gregorian Calender, shewing the best method of finding the Prime-Epact, Moon's age, time of High Water, with a large Tide-Table, alphabetically digested, the manner of working Observations, the best Method of finding the variation of the Compass. To keep a Sea Journal in the best approved method, both in Merchant's Ships and the Royal Navy, also to correct the Dead Reckoning by a good Observation, by the easiest and best approved Method, illustrated with full, proper, and practical examples of the same, together with all useful Astronomical Tables, viz. the Sun's Declination, a Table of Logarithms, of Nat. and Artificial Sines and Tangents, with a curious collection of Astronomical Problems useful in taking Observations at any time of the Day, or by two Observations, and having the time between them, without regarding the Hour; several of them have not appeared in any other Author. With an appendix, shewing how to work all the cases in navigation by the pen arithmetically, without Books, Tables, or Instruments. By William Chambers, Teacher of the Mathematics.
Chambers, William, teacher of the mathematics.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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The young analyst's exercise. Being a choice collection of a hundred algebraical problems, exhibiting all that is curious in simple and quadratic adfected equations. The whole illustrated with various methods of computation, as well by plain Numbers and Geometry, as by Algebra; and calculated to the Capacity of Young Beginners. By Samuel Ashby, Teacher of the Mathematics.
Ashby, Samuel, teacher of the mathematics.Date: M.DCC.XXXVII. [1737]- Books
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The pantheon, representing the fabulous histories of the heathen gods, and most illustrious heroes; in a short, plain, and familiar method, by way of dialogue. Revised, corrected, amended, and illustrated with new copper cuts of the several deities. For the use of schools. By Andrew Tooke, A. M. late Professor of Geometry in Gresham College, and Master of the Charter-House-School.
Pomey, François, 1618-1673.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
The description and use of the trianguler-quadrant : being a particular and general instrument, useful at land or sea; both for observation and operation. More universally useful, portable and convenient, than any other yet discovered. With its uses in arithmetick. Geometry, superficial and solid. Astronomy. Dyalling, three wayes. Gaging. Navigation. In a method not before used. By John Brown, philomath.
Brown, John (Philomath)Date: 1671- Books
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The pantheon, representing the fabulous histories of the heathen gods, and most illustrious heroes; in A Short, Plain, and Familiar Method, by way of dialogue. Revised, corrected, amended, and illustrated with new copper cuts of the several deities. For the use of schools. By Andrew Tooke, A. M. late Professor of Geometry in Gresham College, and Master of the Charter-House-School.
Pomey, François, 1618-1673.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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The pantheon, representing the fabulous histories of the heathen gods, and most illustrious heroes; in a short, plain, and familiar method, by way of dialogue. Revised, corrected, amended, and illustrated with new copper cuts of the several Deities. For the use of schools. By Andrew Tooke, A. M. late Professor of Geometry in Gresham College, and Master of the Charter-House-School.
Pomey, François, 1618-1673.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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The pantheon. Representing the fabulous histories of the heathen gods, and the most illustrious heroes of antiquity. In A Short, Plain, and Familiar Method, by the Way of Dialogue. For the use of schools. By Andrew Tooke, A.M. Late Professor Of Geometry In Gresham College, And Master Of The Charter-House School. A new edition, revised, corrected, amended, and illustrated with twenty-seven new cuts.
Pomey, François, 1618-1673.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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The pantheon, representing the fabulous histories of the heathen gods, and most illustrious heroes; in a short, plain, and familiar method, by way of dialogue. The eighteenth edition. Revised, corrected, amended, and illustrated with new copper cuts of the several Deities. For the use of schools. By Andrew Tooke, A. M. late Professor of Geometry in Gresham College, and Master of the Charter-House-School.
Pomey, François, 1618-1673.Date: M.DCC.LIII. [1753]- Books
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The pantheon, representing the fabulous histories of the heathen gods, and most illustrious heroes; in a short, plain, and familiar method, by Way of Dialogue. The twenty-third edition. Revised, corrected, amended, and illustrated with new copper cuts of the several Deities. For the Use of Schools. By Andrew Tooke, A. M. late Professor of Geometry in Gresham College, and Master of the Charter-House-School.
Pomey, François, 1618-1673.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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The pantheon, representing the fabulous histories of the Heathen Gods, and most illustrious heroes; in a short, plain, and familiar method, by way of dialogue. The seventeenth edition. Revised, corrected, amended, and illustrated with new copper cuts of the several deities. For the use of schools. By Andrew Tooke, A.M. late professor of Geometry in Gresham College, and master of the Charter-House-School.
Pomey, François, 1618-1673.Date: M.DCC.L. [1750]- Books
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The pantheon, representing the fabulous histories of the heathen gods, and most illustrious heroes; in a short, plain, and familiar method, by way of dialogue. The sixteenth edition. Revised, corrected, amended, and illustrated with new copper cuts of the several Deities. For the use of schools. By Andrew Tooke, A. M. late Professor of Geometry in Gresham College and Master of the Charter-House-School.
Pomey, François, 1618-1673.Date: M.DCC.XLVII. [1747]- Books
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The pantheon, representing the fabulous histories of the heathen gods and most illustrious heroes, in a short, plain, and familiar method, by way of dialogue. The twelfth edition. Revis'd, corrected, amended, and illustrated with new copper cuts of the several Deities. For the use of schools. By Andrew Tooke, A. M. late Professor of Geometry in Gresham College, and Master of the Charter-House School.
Pomey, François, 1618-1673.Date: 1732- Books
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The pantheon, representing the fabulous histories of the heathen gods, and most illustrious heroes; In A Short, Plain, and Familiar Method, by way of dialogue. The twentieth edition. Revised, corrected, amended, and illustrated with new Copper Cuts of the several Deities. For the use of schools. By Andrew Tooke, A. M. late Professor of Geometry in Gresham College, and Master of the Charter-House-School.
Pomey, François, 1618-1673.Date: 1761- 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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Synopsis mathematica universalis: or, a brief system of the mathematics, for young students, and such as have not arrived to a great Prefection in those Studies. Containing Variety of useful Practices, In Arithmetic, Geometry, Trigonometry, Astronomy, Dialling, Chronology, Geography, Optics, Catoptrics, Dioptrics, and Statics, Together with astronomical 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.
Hainlin, Johann Jacob, 1588-1660.Date: 1729- Books
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Synopsis mathematica universalis: or the universal mathematical synopsis, translated from the third and last edition of John James Heinlin, Prelate of Bebenhusan. Containing Variety of useful Practices in Arithmetick, Geometry, Trigonometry, Astronomy, Dialling, Chronology, Geography, the Optics, Catoptrics, Dioptrics, the Statics; Together with Astronomical and Geographical Tables, with their Uses, and also the use of the Globes. The whole illustrated with several Mathematical Sculptures on Copper Plates. Corrected and enlarged with many additions. By Venterus Mandey, Philomat.
Hainlin, Johann Jacob, 1588-1660.Date: [1702]- Books
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The mariner's mirror, part [III.] Being a new and compendious system of logarithms In all the different Kinds, viz. I. Nautical Logarithms invented by Mr. Wright. II. Natural Logarithms by Lord Neper. III. Common Logarithms by Mr. Briggs. With Their Application in the Operations of Arithmetic, the Doctrine of Ratios, Natural Philosophy, the Cotesian Geometry; and Navigation, in Particular. The Whole illustrated by the Logistic Curve at large; with the Construction and Delineation of all the Logarithmic Lines and Scales. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: 1772