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Decimal and logarithmical arithmetic explained, and applied to the calculation of dividends, and other practical uses; and shewing the use of logarithms in the calculation of compound interest, and in Proportioning Dividends Amongst Creditors Ranked Pari Passu. With a Table of Logarithms from 1 to 10,000. By John Hill, Accountant.
Hill, John (Accountant)
Date
1799
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Mathematical essays on several subjects: containing new improvements and discoveries in the mathematics. By the Rev. John Hellins.
Hellins, John, -1827.
Date
MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]
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The circle squared. To which is added, a problem To Discover the longitude both at land and sea, by Means of a New Instrument which Discovers the Hour of the Day or Night in any Latitude, as well as the Latitude it self. By Richard Locke.
Locke, Richard (Mathematician)
Date
M,DCC,XXX. [1730]
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Clavis astrologiæ, or, A key to the whole art of astrologie : in two parts: containing I. A brief, methodical, plain introduction thereunto enabling the meanest capacity fully to understand the fundamental grounds thereof and to give a rational judgment upon any astrological figure, nativity or question whatever: also how to make a proper election upon any occasion: unto which is annexed a small book of scheams ready set. II. The Genethliacal part of astrology, briefly comprehending the whole doctrine of directions, revolutions and projections; wherein is shewn by an easie and familiar method, how to rectifie and calculate nativities several ways, and according to any author, as Regiomontanus, Argol, or Kepler: also how to set a scheam the most exact way: with all requisits belonging unto the art of directions perfomed onely by a small artificial canon of sines and tangents; also many brief useful tables covenient for such work; with other varieties not here to fore published / By Henry Coley philomat.
Coley, Henry, 1633-1704?
Date
1669
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The sector and plain scale, compared. Containing I. The description of all the lines upon the sector and plain scales. II. The true use of the sector made plain and easie in several geometrical problems, and in all the cases of right lin'd trigonometry. III. All the proceeding geometrical problems, and cases of right lin'd trigonometry compared by the plain scale, and proved by Mr. Gunter's scale. IV. All the proceeding cases of right lin'd trigonometry, performed arithmetically, without the help of any sort of tables. Unto which is annexed, so much of decimal arithmetick, and the extraction of the square root, as is necessary for the working of arithmetical trigonometry. The second edition. By Roger Rea. N.P. Phi.
Rea, Roger.
Date
1727
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The marrow of the mathematicks, made plain and easie to the understanding of any ordinary capacity. Containing the doctrines of arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, gauging, the use of the sector, surveying, dialling, and the art of navigation, &c. illustrated with several cuts for the better explanation of the whole matter. After a new, compendious, easy method. To which is added, measuring surfaces and solids, such as plank, timber, stone, &c. joiners, carpenters, bricklayers, glasiers, painters and paviers work: each proposition being wrought vulgarly, decimally, practically and instrumentally. With a small tract of gauging wine, ale, or malt, without inches, or division, by which any one may gauge ten backs, or floors of malt, in the same time another shall gauge one, by the way now used: altogether new. By W. Pickering.
Pickering, W. (William).
Date
1724
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A system of the mathematics, containing the Euclidean geometry, plane and spherical trigonometry; the projection of the sphere, both orthographic and stereographic, astronomy, the Use of the Globes and Navigation: The Manner of Computing the Appulses of the Moon to the Fixed Stars, and their Occultations by the Interposition of Her Body, very useful for determining the Difference of Longitude between Places. With an Account of the several Methods Proposed and made Use of, by the most celebrated Astronomers for ascertaining the same. New Solar Tables, with their Construction and Use. Tables of the Sun's Place, Right Ascension, Declination, Equation of Natural Days for every Four Years; with Tables of Variation to make them serve for a Hundred Years to come; and a Catalogue of the Right-Ascensions, Declinations, &c. of the most Eminent Fixed Stars: Deduced from the Flamstedian Observations. The Construction of the Meridional Parts, Logarithms, Sines, Tangents and Secants, both Natural and Artificial, by the Newtonian Series. With an Account of the Cycles, Periods, Epoch's, Epacts, Kalendars, &c. Also A Table of Meridional Parts for every Degree and Minute of Latitude to the Ten Thousandth Place in Decimals, calculated de Novo Together with a Large and very Useful Table of the Latitudes and Longitudes of Places; the whole being designed for the Use of the Mathematical School, founded by King Charles II. ... . By James Hodgson, Master of the Royal Mathematical School in Christ's Hospital, and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Hodgson, James, 1672-1755.
Date
1723
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Cursus mathematicus, Mathematical sciences : in nine books ... : with the description, construction, and use of geometrical and nautical instruments, and the doctrine of triangles applied to practice in mensurations of all kinds / by William Leybourn.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.
Date
1690
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Mathematicks made plain, In the Solution of Variety Of Useful Propositions in Arithmetick. Interest, Simple and Compound. Geometry. Surveying. Gauging. Measuring all Artificers Works. Trigonometry, Plain and Spherical. Astronomy. Geography. Navigation. Dialling. Chronology. Dioptricks. Staticks. Gunnery. Military Fortification. Civil and Naval Architecture. Mechanick Powers. Automaticks, or Clock-Work, &c. All Perform'd by that Excellent Line of Numbers, commonly call'd Gunter's-Line. Being A necessary Companion for Gentlemen, Military Officers, Engineers, Architects, Seamen, Surveyors, Usurers, Shopkeepers of all sorts; Artificers, as Masons, Bricklayers, Carpenters, Shipwrights, Watch-Makers, Glaziers, Painters, Plaisterers, &c. By Richard Neve, Philomath. Approv'd of by the Royal Society.
Neve, Richard.
Date
1708
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The doctrine of chances: or, a method of calculating the probabilities of events in play. The second edition, fuller, clearer, and more correct than the first By A. de Moivre, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin.
Moivre, Abraham de, 1667-1754.
Date
M.DCC.XXXVIII. [1738]
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