The grovnd of arts. Teaching the perfect worke and practise of arithmeticke, both in whole numbers and fractions, after a more easie and exact forme than in former time hath been set forth / made by M. Robert Record ... Afterward, augmented by Mr. John Dee. And since enlarged with a third part of Rules of practise ... with divers necessary rules incident to the trade of merchandise: with tables of the valuation of all coynes ... By Iohn Mellis ... And now diligently perused, corr. illustrated and enl.; with an appendix, of figurate numbers, and the extract of their roots ... with tables of board and timber measure; and new tables of interest upon interest, after 10 and 8 per 100; with the true value of annuities to be bought or sold present, respited of in reversion: the first calculated by R.C. but corrected, and the latter diligently calculated by Rob: Hartwell ... [Two line Latin quotation].

  • Recorde, Robert, 1510?-1558.
Date:
1640
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

London : Printed by J. Raworth, for John Harison, and are to be sold at his shop in Paternoster Row, at the Signe of the Unicorne, 1640.

Physical description

13 unnumbered leaves, 630 pages : tables, diagrams ; (8vo)

References note

STC 20811

Notes

Signatures: A-Z⁸, Aa-Ss⁸
Numerous errors in paging
The third part has special title-page

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