A plain and familiar method for attaining the knowledge and practice of common arithmetic ... / By Edmund Wingate, esq.

  • Wingate, Edmund, 1596-1656.
Date:
1760
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Credit: A plain and familiar method for attaining the knowledge and practice of common arithmetic ... / By Edmund Wingate, esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Improvements, which take in his own Words, as they flood in his Preface to the former Editions. \ 1 m - 44 Firft, For the Eafe and Benefit of thofe Learner?, 44 that defire only fo much Skill in Arithmetic, as is ufeful in Accompts, Trade, and fuch like ordinary 64 Employments •, the Dodtrine of whole Numbers, 64 (which, in the fir ft Edition, was intermingled with 44 Definitions and Rules concerning broken Numbers, 44 commonly called Fractions,) is now entirely handled 44 a-part. And to the end the full Knowledge of Prac- 44 tical Arithmetic in whole Numbers might more 44 clearly appear, I have explained divers of the old 44 Rules in the firft five Chapters, and framed a-new 44 the Rules of Divifion, Redudtion, and the Golden- 44 Rule, in the fixth, feventh, eighth, and ninth Chap- 44 ters: So that now, Arithmetic in whole Numbers 44 is plainly and fully handled before any Entrance be 44 made into the craggy Paths of Frations, at the Sight 44 of which fome Learners are fo difcouraged, that they 44 make a Stand, and cry out, Non plus ultra, There*s 44 no Progrefs farther. 44 Secondly, To affift fuch young Students as would €C lay a good Foundation for the attaining of a general 44 Knowledge in the Mathematics, I have in a familiar C4 Method delivered the entire Do&rine of Fractions, 44 both Vulgar and Decimal, which was omitted in the 44 firft Edition; and have alfo newly framed the Ex- 44 tradlion of the Square and Cube-roots, in a Method 44 which by Experience is found to be much eafier than 44 that commonly ufed heretofore, and is exadlly fuit- Si able to the Conftrudtion or Compofition of Square 44 and Cube Numbers. 44 Laftly, I have added an Appendix, furnifhed with 44 Variety of choice and delightful Knowledge in Num- 46 bers, both Pra&ical and Theoretical.5* But as Mr. Kerfey has omitted to enumerate the Par¬ ticulars of which his Appendix confifted, the Editor has A 2 here