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Decimal and logarithmical arithmetic explained, and applied to the calculation of dividends, and other practical uses; and shewing the use of logarithms in the calculation of compound interest, and in Proportioning Dividends Amongst Creditors Ranked Pari Passu. With a Table of Logarithms from 1 to 10,000. By John Hill, Accountant.
Hill, John (Accountant)Date: 1799
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Mathematical essays on several subjects: containing new improvements and discoveries in the mathematics. By the Rev. John Hellins.
Hellins, John, -1827.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]
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The circle squared. To which is added, a problem To Discover the longitude both at land and sea, by Means of a New Instrument which Discovers the Hour of the Day or Night in any Latitude, as well as the Latitude it self. By Richard Locke.
Locke, Richard (Mathematician)Date: M,DCC,XXX. [1730]
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Clavis astrologiæ, or, A key to the whole art of astrologie : in two parts: containing I. A brief, methodical, plain introduction thereunto enabling the meanest capacity fully to understand the fundamental grounds thereof and to give a rational judgment upon any astrological figure, nativity or question whatever: also how to make a proper election upon any occasion: unto which is annexed a small book of scheams ready set. II. The Genethliacal part of astrology, briefly comprehending the whole doctrine of directions, revolutions and projections; wherein is shewn by an easie and familiar method, how to rectifie and calculate nativities several ways, and according to any author, as Regiomontanus, Argol, or Kepler: also how to set a scheam the most exact way: with all requisits belonging unto the art of directions perfomed onely by a small artificial canon of sines and tangents; also many brief useful tables covenient for such work; with other varieties not here to fore published / By Henry Coley philomat.
Coley, Henry, 1633-1704?Date: 1669
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The sector and plain scale, compared. Containing I. The description of all the lines upon the sector and plain scales. II. The true use of the sector made plain and easie in several geometrical problems, and in all the cases of right lin'd trigonometry. III. All the proceeding geometrical problems, and cases of right lin'd trigonometry compared by the plain scale, and proved by Mr. Gunter's scale. IV. All the proceeding cases of right lin'd trigonometry, performed arithmetically, without the help of any sort of tables. Unto which is annexed, so much of decimal arithmetick, and the extraction of the square root, as is necessary for the working of arithmetical trigonometry. The second edition. By Roger Rea. N.P. Phi.
Rea, Roger.Date: 1727
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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, dialling, and the art of navigation, &c. illustrated with several cuts for the better explanation of the whole matter. After a new, compendious, easy method. 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. By W. Pickering.
Pickering, W. (William).Date: 1724
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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
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Cursus mathematicus, Mathematical sciences : in nine books ... : with the description, construction, and use of geometrical and nautical instruments, and the doctrine of triangles applied to practice in mensurations of all kinds / by William Leybourn.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716Date: 1690
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Mathematicks made plain, In the Solution of Variety Of Useful Propositions in Arithmetick. Interest, Simple and Compound. Geometry. Surveying. Gauging. Measuring all Artificers Works. Trigonometry, Plain and Spherical. Astronomy. Geography. Navigation. Dialling. Chronology. Dioptricks. Staticks. Gunnery. Military Fortification. Civil and Naval Architecture. Mechanick Powers. Automaticks, or Clock-Work, &c. All Perform'd by that Excellent Line of Numbers, commonly call'd Gunter's-Line. Being A necessary Companion for Gentlemen, Military Officers, Engineers, Architects, Seamen, Surveyors, Usurers, Shopkeepers of all sorts; Artificers, as Masons, Bricklayers, Carpenters, Shipwrights, Watch-Makers, Glaziers, Painters, Plaisterers, &c. By Richard Neve, Philomath. Approv'd of by the Royal Society.
Neve, Richard.Date: 1708
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The doctrine of chances: or, a method of calculating the probabilities of events in play. The second edition, fuller, clearer, and more correct than the first By A. de Moivre, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin.
Moivre, Abraham de, 1667-1754.Date: M.DCC.XXXVIII. [1738]
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Miscellaneous tracts on some curious, and very interesting subjects in mechanics, physical-astronomy, and speculative mathematics; wherein, the precession of the equinox, the nutation of the earth's axis, and the motion of the moon in her orbit, are determined. By Thomas Simpson, F. R. S. And Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Stockholm.
Simpson, Thomas, 1710-1761.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]
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Walkingame's improved arithmetic; for the use of schools. Put into a more easy, useful, concise, and methodical form, than any extant.
Walkingame, Francis, 1723-1783.Date: 1794
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The young trigonometer's new guide; containing The Elements of Plain and Spherical Trigonometry, deduced from the Principles of the Sphere in a Method entirely new; with the Analogies for solving all Cases, and Varieties of Triangles in every Way hitherto invented; with their Application to Practice. Together with The Principles of Fluxionary Trigonometry fully explained and exemplified in many useful Problems. also The Laws and Rules of the Stereographic Projection of the Sphere explained, and applied to the Delineation and Solution of Spherical Triangles, and the Construction of Maps and Dials. Illustrated by four copper-plates. By B. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: [1772?]
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A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions: unlock'd and open'd, for the recreation of ingenious spirits at their vacant hours : Being receipts and conceits of several natures, and fit for those who are lovers of natural and artificial conclusions. As also variety of recreative fire-works both for land, air, and water. And fire-works of service for sea and shore. Whereunto is added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks. Likewise directions for ringing the most usual peals, that belong to that art. Collected by J. W. a lover of artificial conclusions.
White, John, -1671Date: 1677
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Arithmetica absque algebra aut Euclide demonstrata. Cui accesserunt, cogitata Nonnulla de radicibus surdis, de Aestu Aeris, de ludo algebraico, &c. Autore **** Art. Bac. Trin. Col. Dub.
Berkeley, George, 1685-1753.Date: MDCCVII. [1707]
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A new system of arithmetick, theorical and practical. Wherein the science of numbers is demonstrated in a regular course from its First Principles, thro' all the Parts and Branches thereof; Either known to the Ancients, or owing to the Improvements of the Moderns. The Practice and Application to the Affairs of Life and Commerce being also Fully Explained: So as to make the Whole a Complete System of Theory, For the Purposes of Men of Science; And of Practice, for Men of Business. By Alexander Malcolm, A. M. Teacher of the Mathematicks at Aberdeen.
Malcolm, Alexander, 1685-1763.Date: M.DCC.XXX. [1730]
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The young mathematician's guide. Being a plain and easie introduction to the mathematicks. In five parts. ... With an appendix ... The fourth edition, carefully corrected; and new tables ... added by the author, John Ward.
Ward, John, active 1698-1709.Date: 1724
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Elements of mathematics. Containing Geometry. Conic-Sections. Trigonometry. Surveying. Levelling. Mensuration. Laws of Motion. Mechanics. Projectiles. Gunnery, &c. Hydrostatics. Hydraulics. Pneumatics. A Theory of Pumps. To which is prefixed, the first principles of algebra, By Way of Introduction. For the Use of the Royal Academy of Artillery at Woolwich. Vol. I. and II. By John Muller, Professor of Artillery and Fortification.
Muller, John, 1699-1784.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]
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The rudiments of mathematics; designed for the use of students at the universities : containing An Introduction to Algebra, Remarks on the first six Books of Euclid, The Elements of Plane Trigonometry: by W. Ludlam, Late Fellow Of ST. John's College, Cambridge.
Ludlam, William, 1717-1788.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]
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An epitome of the elements of Italian book-keeping, selected, and compiled from the best modern systems. By Edmund Fitzgerald, writing master and accountant, in Whitehaven.
Fitzgerald, Edmund, writing master.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]
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A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions, unlock'd and open'd, for the recreation of ingenious spirits : Being receits and conceits of several natures, and fit for those who are lovers of natural and artificial conclusions. As also variety of recreative fire-works both for land, air, and water. And fire-works of service, for sea and shore. Whereunto are added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks. Together with several curious receits of great use, collected out of Alexis, Mizaldus, Wecker, &c. / By John White a lover of artificial conclusions.
White, John, -1671Date: 1689
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The young mathematician's guide. Being a plain and easie introduction to the mathematicks. In five parts. ... With an appendix of practical gauging. By John Ward. ...
Ward, John, active 1698-1709.Date: 1707
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An inaugural oration, on the progress and importance of the mathematical sciences. Delivered at Princeton on the evening preceding the annual commencement 1788, by Walter Minto, L.L.D. Professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in the College of New-Jersey.
Minto, Walter, 1753-1796.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]
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Mathematical lucubrations: containing new improvements in various branches of the mathematics. By John Landen.
Landen, John, 1719-1790.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]
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The mariners new kalendar. Containing the principles of arithmetic and geometry; with the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots. Also Rules for finding the Prime, Epact, Moon's Age, Time of High-Water, with Tables for the same. Together with exact tables of the sun's place, Declination, and Right-Ascension. Of the Right Ascension and Declination of the Principal Fixed Stars. Of the Latitude and Longitude of Places. A large Table of Difference of Latitude and Departure, for the exact Working a Traverse. Also the description and use of the sea-quadrant, Fore-Staff and Nocturnal. The Problems of Plain-Sailing and Astronomy, wrought by the Logarithms, and by Gunter's Scale. A Tide Table. The Courses and Distances on the Coast of Great Britain, Ireland, France, &c. And the Soundings coming into the Channel. With Directions for sailing into some Principal Harbours. By Nathaniel Colson, Student in the Mathematicks
Colson, Nathaniel, active 1674.Date: [1749]