A mathematical miscellany in four parts. I. An Essay towards the probable Solution of Gordon's Forty five Surprizing Geographical Paradoxes, and others added in this Edition. II. Fifty five New and Amazing Paradoxes and AEnigmas, some in Verse, some in Prose, with their Solutions; to which are subjoined several others, left unanswered for the Amusement of the Ingenious of either Sex. III. Answers to the Hundred Questions, formerly left unanswered in Hill's Arithmetick and Alexander's Algebra, and a Select Number of Curious Questions left unanswered. IV. Miscellaneous Rules about forming AEnigmas, Questions, &c. A Discourse concerning the Principles of Astronomy, Doctrine of Eclipses, Properties of Pendulums, Equation of Time and Chronology; concluding with a Perpetual Almanack, and Rules for finding all the Moveable Feasts in both new and old Stile. First published by Samuel Fuller, Philomath: and now enlarged, revised and corrected, by the editors.

  • Fuller, Samuel, -approximately 1736.
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1770
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Dublin : printed and sold by Isaac Jackson and Son at the Globe in Meath-street, 1770.

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190,[2]p.,plates : ill. ; 120.

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The third edition, corrected.

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ESTC T112929

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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