The usher. Comprising arithmetic in whole numbers; federal money; decimal and vulgar fractions; a description and use of Coggeshall's sliding rule; some uses of Gunter's scale; superficial and solid measuring; geometrical definitions and problems; surveying; the surveyor's pocket companion, or trigonometry made easy; a table of sines; a table of tangents; miscellany; tables of the weight and value of gold coins. Calculated and designed for youth. By Ezekiel Little, A.M. Published agreeably to act of Congress. [Two lines of verse]
- Little, Ezekiel, 1762-1840.
- Date:
- 1799
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Exeter [N.H.] : Printed by H. Ranlet, and sold at his book-store; sold also, by the booksellers in Boston, Newburyport, Portsmouth, and other places, 1799.
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240p. ; 120.
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References note
ESTC W29645
Evans, 35734
Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2391
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