Arithmetic - Early works to 1800
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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, IsaacDate: [1790?]- E-books
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Nouvelle & universelle pratique d'arithmetique , Ou l'on explique clairement tout ce qu'il y à [sic] d'obscur, dans les nombres, par des régles si aisées, que de soi-meme chacun peut apprendre toutes les belles maniéres de chiffrer qui sont usitées dans les pais où le negoce fleurit, & principalement en Angleterre, en Hollande, & en France. Ouvrage qui par la suppression des parties aliquottes, est rempli de tout ce qu'il y à de court, de curieux, & de subtil dans cette science, par rapport au commerce, aux monoyes, aux poids, & aux mesures. Embeli de la negociation des lettres de change, des egalités, des arbitrages, & des charges universels. Le tout par des régles toutes nouvelles, avec leurs preuves. Divisé en deux parties. Premiere partie. Par le sieur Monier de Clair-combe.
Monier de Clairecombe, Jean.Date: 1707- E-books
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Youth's faithful monitor or, the young man's best companion. Containing a compendious English grammar, proper for all Youth to be acquainted with. Reading and writing made easy, with copies of the same; Letters on various Subjects, Receipts and promissory Notes, Forms of Bills of Debt, Bills of Sale, Bonds, Indentures, Wills, &c. Also, arithmetic laid down in an easier Manner than any yet extant; whereby a Person of a mean Capacity may attain the same without the Help of a Master. Merchants Accompts, or, the best Method of Book-Keeping, after an easy and short Method, the Forms of Bills of Exchange, the Fares of Watermen as set forth by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen. Likewise Mensuration, Gauging, and Surveying made easy; with some very useful Tables of Interest, calculated on a new Plan. Astronomy and Geography; containing a Description of the Use of the Globes Celestial and terrestrial; with a Description of the Product, Counties, Market Towns with their Distance of Miles from London, and Market Days in England and Wales, and a correct List of all the Fairs. Likewise the Art of Dialling; how to erect and fix them; with Instructions for making Colours; together with a choice Collection of curious Receipts. To which is added A curious Abstract of the History of England, with all the remarkable Events down to the present Year. With a great variety of copper-plates and cuts. By William Woolgar, Accomptant. The Third Edition. Improved, enlarged and corrected By John Wright, Gent. Author of the American Negotiator.
Woolgar, WilliamDate: 1766- E-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]- E-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, fl. 1770-1815.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]