The young mathematician's guide: being a plain and easie introduction to the mathematicks. In five parts. Viz. I. Arithmetick, Vulgar and Decimal, in all its useful Rules; With a General Method of Extracting the Roots of all Single Powers. II. Algebra, or Arithmetick in Species; wherein the Method of Raising and Resolving Aequations is rendred Easie; and Illustrated with Variety of Examples, and Numerical Questions. Also the whole Business of Interest and Annuities, &c. fully and plainly handled; with several New Improvements. III. The Elements of Geometry, Contracted, and Analytically Demonstrated: With a New and Easie Method of finding the Circles, Periphery and Area to any assign'd Exactness, by one Aequation only: Also a New Way of making Sines and Tangents. IV. Conick-Sections, wherein the Chief Properties, &c. of the Ellipsis, Parabola, and Hyperbola, are clearly Demonstrated. V. The Arithmetick of Infinites Explained, and rendred Easie; with its Application to Superficial and Solid Geometry. With an appendix of practical gauging. By John Ward, Philomath. Heretofore Chief Surveyor and Gauger-General in the Excise.

Date:

MDCCIX. [1709]