A companion to The ladies and gentlemens diary, for the year 1779  containing aenigmas, rebusses, mathematical essays, questions and solutions, &c. By Reuben Burrow, Late Assistant Astronomer at the Royal Observatory; and Mathematical Master of the Drawing-Room in the Tower.

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A companion to The ladies and gentlemens diary, for the year 1779 containing aenigmas, rebusses, mathematical essays, questions and solutions, &c. By Reuben Burrow, Late Assistant Astronomer at the Royal Observatory; and Mathematical Master of the Drawing-Room in the Tower.