Arithmetical Books from the Invention of Printing to the Present Time: Being Brief Notices of a Large Number of Works Drawn Up from Actual InspectionTaylor and Walton, 1847 - 124 |
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Strona 81 - did her's as far exceed As three Times three does three ; But when ten Years, and Half ten Years, We Man and Wife had been, Her Age came up as near to mine As eight is to sixteen. Now, tell me, I pray, What were our Ages on the Wedding Day
Strona 58 - Arithmetiek: Being A plain and familiar Method, suitable to the meanest Capacity for the full understanding of that Incomparable Art, as it is now taught by the ablest School-Masters in City and Country. Composed By Edward Cocker, late Practitioner in the Arts of Writing
Strona 19 - This boke sheweth the maner of measurynge of all maner of lande, as well of woodlande, as of lande in the felde, and comptynge the true nombre of acres of the same. + Newlye invented and compyled by Syr Rycharde Benese, Chanon of Marton Abbay besyde London. Prynted in Southwarke in Saynt Thomas hospital!, by me James Nicolson.
Strona 52 - London, sixteen-eighty-four. Thos. Baker. ' The Geometrical Key: or the Gate of Equations unlocked:' &c. Quarto. London, sixteen-eighty-five. Seth Partridge. ' The description and use of an instrument called the double scale of proportion.' Octavo. On the sliding rule. London, sixteen-eighty-five. John Collins. 'The doctrine of decimal arithmetick, simple interest, as also of
Strona xiv - and even later in Italy, it was common enough to print in quire-fashion. Imagine a common copybook, written through straightforward, and the string then cut: and suppose it then separates into four double leaves besides the cover. It would then have sixteen pages, the separate double leaves containing severally pages
Strona 39 - at the end of the dedication. Octavo. London, sixteen-forty-seven. ' The Key of the Mathematicks New Forged and Filed : Together with A Treatise of the Resolution of all kinde of Affected ^Equations in Numbers. With the Rule of Compound Usury; And demonstration of the Rule of false Position. And
Strona 49 - who makes mention of Hypsicles, may have flourished towards the end of the sixth, or the beginning of the seventh century. The
Strona 4 - volume of description to do it justice. It is sometimes called the first work on arithmetic printed ; but Calandri, Peter Borgo, three already mentioned in the Introduction, and perhaps more, take precedence. But it is certainly the first printed on algebra, and probably the first on book-keeping. P. 414, 424, 429
Strona 29 - how to keepe bookes of Accompts after the order of Debitor and Creditor, and as well for proper Accompts partible, &c. By the three bookes named the Memoriall Journall and Leager, and of other necessaries
Strona 35 - Arithmeticall questions, touching the Buying or Exchange of Annuities ; Taking of Leases for Fines, or yearly Rent; Purchase of FeeSimples ; Dealing for present or future Possessions ; and other Bargaines and Accounts, wherein allowance for disbursing or forbeareance of money is intended