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Arithmetic in epitome: or, a compendium of all the rules, both Vulgar and Decimal. Wherein Clear and Plain demonstrations are deduced from the Principles of Arithmetic itself; without either Reference to Euclid, or Use of Algebra. By W. Webster, Writing-Master.
Webster, William, approximately 1684-1744.Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]- Books
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A new treatise of practical arithmetick, done in a plain and easy way for the use of all, but especially for the meanest capacity to attain a full understanding of that most excellent and useful science, with great improvements. Containing, numeration, addition, substraction, multiplication, division, reductions of coin, weights, and measure, the golden rules of three, single and double, direct and reverse, rules of practice, tare and trett, fellowship single and double, barter, loss and gain, interest simple and compound, rebate or discount. Exchange of coin, vulgar fractions, extraction of the square and cube roots, measuring of board, glazing, wainscot, painting, timber, stone, &c. Enter'd in the hall-book of the Company of Stationers, according to act of Parliament. The third edition. By Humphry Johnson. Writing most in Old Bedlam Court without Bishopsgate, where youth may be boarded.
Johnson, Humphry.Date: 1715- Books
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Arithmetick in epitome: or, a compendium of all its rules, both vulgar and decimal. In two parts. To which are now added, clear and plain demonstrations deduc'd from the principles of arithmetick itself; without either Reference to Euclid, or Use of Algebra. By W. Webster, writing-master.
Webster, William, approximately 1684-1744.Date: M.DCC.XXIX. [1729]- Books
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A new treatise of practical arithmetick, done in a plain and easy way for the use of all, but especially for the meanest Capacity to attain a full understanding of that most excellent and useful Science, with great Improvements. Containing, Numeration, Addition, Substraction, Multiplication, Division, Reductions of Coin, Weights, and Measure, the Golden Rules of Three, Single and Double, Direct and Reverse, Rules of Practice, Tare and Trett, Fellowship Single and Double, Barter, Loss and Gain, Interest Simple and Compound, Rebate or Discount, Exchange of Coin, Vulgar Fractions, Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots, Measuring of Board, Glazing, Wainscot, Painting, Timber, Stone, &c Enter'd in the Hall-Book of the Company of Stationers, according to Act of Parliament. By Humphry Johnson, Writing-Master in Old-Bedlam-Court without Bishopsgate, where Youth may be Boarded
Johnson, Humphry.Date: 1712- Books
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Arithmetick compendiz'd; or, a short treatise of arithmetick: composed for the use of the charity schools erected by the Society in Scotland for propagating Christian knowledge: Established by Her Royal Majesty Queen Anne Her Letters patent. By a Member of the Society.
Spence, David, Treasurer of the Bank of Scotland.Date: Anno Dom. M.DCC.XIV. [1714]- Books
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The new complete system of arithmetic, composed for the use of the citizens of the United States. By Nicolas Pike, A.M. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Abridged for the use of schools.
Pike, Nicolas, 1743-1819.Date: 1798- Books
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The tutor's assistant; being a compendium of arithmetic, and a complete question-book. Containing, I. Arithmetic in whole numbers; being a brief Explanation of all its Rules, in a new and more concise Method than any hitherto published; with an Application to each Rule, consisting of a large Variety of Questions in real Business, with their Answers annexed. II. Vulgar Fractions, which are treated with a great deal of Plainness and Perspicuity. III. Decimals, with the Extraction of the Square, Cube, and Biquadrate Roots, after a very plain and familiar Manner; in which are set down Rules for the easy Calculation of Interest, Annuities, and Pensions in Arrears, the present Worth of Annuities, &c. either by Simple or Compound Interest. IV. Duodecimals, or Multiplication of Feet and Inches, with Examples applied to measuring and working by Multiplication, Practice, and Decimals. V. A collection of questions set down promiscuously, for the greater Trial of the foregoing Rules. To which are added, a new and very short method of extracting the cube root, and a general Table for the ready calculating the Interest of any Sum of Money, at any Rate per Cent. likewise Rents, Salaries, &c. The Whole being adapted either as a Question-Book for the Use of Schools, or, as a Remembrancer and Instructor to such as have some Knowledge therein. This Work having been perused by several Eminent Mathematicians and Accomptants, is recommended as the best Compendium hitherto published, for the Use of Schools, or for Private Persons. The sixteenth edition. By Francis Walkingame, Writing-Master and Accomptant.
Walkingame, Francis, 1723-1783.Date: 1779- Books
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Arithmetick in epitome. In two parts. By William Webster, W. M.
Webster, William, approximately 1684-1744.Date: [1715?]- Books
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A Brief arithmetical catechism; Drawn up and published by way of essay for the benefit of young practitioners in arithmetick.
Date: M,DCC,XXXVII. [1737]- Books
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Walkingame's improved arithmetic; for the use of schools. Put into a more easy, useful, concise, and methodical form, than any extant.
Walkingame, Francis, 1723-1783.Date: 1794- Books
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The British youth's instructor: or, A new and easy guide'o practical arithmetic. Wherein the rudiments of common arithmetic, vulgar and decimal fractions; the extraction and use of the square and cube roots, &c are so easily treated of. And so plainly demonstrated, that any person may, of himself (in a short time) become acquainted with every thing necessary to the knowledge of business. To which is added, a postscript, for the use of country youths in particular; shewing how to measure any regular piece of timber, tyling, tharching, brick-work, or piece of land; as also, how to gauge any cistern, piece of malt, or common cooler, tub, or cask. The whole designed for such as have hitherto neglected, or have not had opportunity of being acquainted with figures; and attempted in natural and familiar dialogues, in order to render the work more easy and diverting, as well as useful to learners. Recommended by several eminent writing-masters, and accomptants. The third edition, corrected and improved, by some particular observations on the rule of discount. By Daniel Fenning, author of The young Algchraist's companion, description and use of the globes, both in dialogues; and the universal, spelling-book.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]- Books
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The expeditious instructor: or, reading, writing and arithmetick made plain and easy. (containing much more in Quantity, and a far greater Variety of Instructions, than any Book of the Kind or Price; and expressed in so easy and familiar a Manner, that Persons of the lowest Capacity may learn, without a Master.) Among many other useful Particulars, are contain'd I. A succinct English Grammar. II. Of Words that are nearly alike in Sound, but are different in Sense and Spelling. III. The Names of the Gods and Goddesses of the Heathens; and of the Muses, Graces, &c. IV. A very particular Account of Stops and Marks: With Directions for their Use, in a Manner entirely New. V. Directions for placing the Accent and Emphasis. VI. Directions for chusing and hardening Quills; for making and mending Pens; and for making and preserving Inks. Vii. Directions for making an Ink for marking Linnen, which will never wash out. Viii. Directions for Writing; by which a Person, though entirely ignorant of that Art, may write a good Hand in twenty-four Hours, without the Assistance of a Master. IX. Directions for those who would write elegantly. X. Directions for Figure-Hand, &c. and a new and easy Short-Hand. XI. A very particular Explanation of Abbreviations in Writing. XII. How to superscribe and begin Letters to Persons to Distinction. XIII. How to make several Sorts of Sealing-Wax and Wafers; and how to take the Impression of any Leaf, for Needle-Work, or Colouring. XIV. Forms of Receipts and Notes, for transacting of Business. XV. Of Arithmetick; and an easy Method of learning it. XVI. Directions to Painters, Stone-Cutters, &c. for painting or cutting Words and Sentences; and how they should spell, and place them with Propriety. XVII. A Collection of Epitaphs, for the Use of Stone-Cutters, &c. Illustrated with a variety of alphabets and copies, in various hands, on copper plates; with Ornaments for the Tops and Bottoms of Pages. Engrav'd from the Writings and Designs of the most Eminent School Masters. The whole is calculated for the use of painters, engravers, stone-cutters, and all Others that would learn expeditiously to Read, Write or cast Accompts.
Date: M.DCC.LVI. [1756]- Books
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Key to the Arithmetical Institutes, for the improvement of young ladies in the science of numbers. By the Author of The universal accountant. Example is better than precept. Sen.
Gordon, William, active 1763-1809.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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An epitome of the elements of Italian book-keeping, selected, and compiled from the best modern systems. By Edmund Fitzgerald, writing master and accountant, in Whitehaven.
Fitzgerald, Edmund, writing master.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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The key to the Tutor's guide: or the arithmetician's repository. Containing the solutions of the questions, &c. in the Tutor's guide. With the References as they stand in the Fifth Edition. To which is added (where necessary) Some Useful Rules, &c. Likewise AN Appendix. Shewing the Combination of Quantities; the different Ways they may be varied; with the Method of filling the Magic Squares, &c. The Whole being principally designed for the Ease of School-Masters, and, with the Guide, furnishes a more Complete and Extensive System of Arithmetic, than any extant; and will enable all those who are acquainted with the first Principles, to attain a competent Knowledge of the several Rules, with Ease and Precision. the fourth edition, carefully revised and corrected. By Charles Vyse, Master of the Academy at Westham-Abbey, Essex.
Vyse, Charles, active 1770-1815.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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A tutor to arithmetick. Being examination and exercise. thro' all the common rules of that useful science. In which are explain'd the reason of the operations; and several improvements not common, made for the more readier calculation of business. Done for the better instruction of youth in arithmetick. By J.B teacher of the mathematicks, in Corke.
J. B., teacher of the mathematicks.Date: 1719- Books
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The grammarian's arithmetick: or, a compendious treatise of the art of cyphering, in all its branches, both vulgar and decimal. Adapted to the capacities of youth in general, and in particular to the little spare Time of such Young Gentlemen as in grammar schools are design'd for the University, or Liberal Professions. The rules to be repeated, and sums to be perform'd, for the ease of both master and scholar, Being printed, and by a peculiar Method render'd much plainer to be understood, and more expeditiously taught and learned, than in the Common Way. In four parts. By John Holmes, Master of the Publick Grammar School, in Holt, Norfolk.
Holmes, John, 1703-1759.Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Books
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Institutes of arithmetic, elementary and practical: the mensuration of surfaces and solids, and the use of logarithms in all the parts of arithmetic: to which are added, tables of annuities, Lives, &c. The Whole Designed as a Directory or Text-Book for the Use of Schools. By William Gordon, Master of the Mercantile Academy, Edinburgh.
Gordon, William, active 1763-1809.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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A little young man's companion; or, common arithmetic, turned into a song, as far as the rule of three direct. Written for the benefit and instruction of those who have not time to read large books. To which is added, One Enigma, A New Song in Praise of London Porter, and The Wandering Bard's Farewel to Oxford. By N. Withey, of Hagley, in Worcestershire.
Withy, N. (Nathan).Date: in the Year 1792- Books
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Arithmetic made easy, in the first four fundamental rules, with an appendix of reduction and the single rule of three. Also a collection of all the useful tables. Submitted to the earliest and least informed Capacities, and principally designed to revive the neglected, but useful Exercises of that Science. To which are added for Illustration, Examples and Proofs under every rule; also For Exercise) many Examples and their Answers under every Case in Reduction and the Rule of Three. Upon an intire new plan. By J. Bettesworth, Mathematical Master to the Maritime School, Chelsea.
Bettesworth, John.Date: [1780?]- Books
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Arithmetic, rational and practical. Wherein The properties of Numbers are clearly pointed out, the Theory of the science deduced from first principles, the methods of Operation demonstratively explained, and the whole reduced to Practice in a great variety of useful Rules. Consisting of Three Parts, viz. I. Vulgar Arithmetic. II. Decimal Arithmetic. III. Practical Arithmetic. By John Mair, A. M. Part I. Vulgar Arithmetic.
Mair, John, 1702 or 1703-1769.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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A table which reduces deals as imported from the Baltic, to standard deals. Shewing the quantity of Standard in any Number of Baltic, or common Deals, from 1 to 1000, of any length from 6 Feet to 16 Feet long, and from 7? to 12 Inches broad; thickness being 1?, 2, 2?, and 3 Inches. And for white Deals Imported from Norway, when Sold by the Hundred at 12 Feet long, and 3 Inches thick, which is the customary Method. Also, by this Table may be found the quantity of Standard Deals, if the length, thickness, and breadth be more than in the Table. To which is added, a Table of Solid Measure, shewing the Contents in Feet and Quarters, of any Piece of Timber from 1 to 60 Feet long, and from 5 to 24 Inches the Girt, to every half Foot in Length, and quarter Inch in Girt. A Standard Deal is 12 Feet long, 1? Inch thick, and 11 Inches broad. In the Table 12 Inches make 1 Foot, and 11 Feet 1 Deal; so that it must be observed in adding up the Sums taken out of the Table, to carry from the Feet Column, to the Column for Deals, 1 Deal for every 11 Feet. Calculated by Isaac Sandys.
Sandys, Isaac.Date: [1790?]- Books
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The preceptor's assistant, or, schoolmaster's guide: being a compendium of arithmetic. Adapted to the Use of Schools. By John Shield, Master of the Academy, at Ewell, in Surry. Containing All the Rules of Arithmetic in whole Numbers; Vulgar and Decimal Fractions; Extraction of the Square, Cube, and Biquadrate, Roots; Duodecimals; Mensuration of Superficies and Solids; with several pleasing and useful Recreations.
Shield, John, -1786.Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]- Books
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This day is published, price 2s. The tutor's assistant; Being A Compendium Of AtArithmetic, And A Complete Question-Book. Containing: I. Arithmetic in Whole Numbers; being a brief Explanation of all its Rules, in a new and more concise Method than any hitherto published; with an Application to each Rule, consisting of a large Variety of Questions in real Business, with their Answers annexed. II. Vulgar Fractions, which are treated with a great deal of Plainness and Perspicuity. III. Decimals, with the Extraction of the Square, Cube, and Biquadrate Roots, after a very plain and familiar Manner; in which are set down Rules for the easy Calculation of Interest, Annuities, and Pensions in Arrears, the present Worth of Annuities, &c. either by Simple or Compound Interest. IV. Duodecimals or Multiplication of Feet and Inches, with Examples applied to measuring and working by Multiplication, Practice, and Decimals. V. The Mensuration of Circles, &c. VI. A Collection of Questions set down promiscuously, for the greater Trial of the foregoing Rules. To Which Are Added, A General Table for the ready calculating the Interest of any Sum of Money, at any Rate per Cent. likewise Rents, Salaries, &c. The whole being adapted either as a Question-Book for the Use of Schools, or as a Remembrances and Instructor to such as have some Knowledge therein. This Work having been perused by several eminent Mathematicians and Accomptants, is recommended as the best Compendium hitherto published, for the Use of Schools, or for Private Persons. By Francis Walkingame, Writing-Master And Accomptant. The twenty-ninth edition, corrected by an eminent mathematician.
Scatcherd, James, 1755-1828.Date: 1800- Books
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An introduction to arithmetic designed for the use of young ladies, by William Butler, private teacher of writing accounts, and geography. Discendo doctus.
Butler, William, 1748-1822.Date: 1788