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The elements of that mathematical art commonly called algebra, expounded in four books / By John Kersey.

  • John Kersey the elder
Date:
1673
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    t ^ I I J .,'V ■ A O F The Contents of the Firft and Second B O OK S of this Treatise. The Contents of the Firft Book. DEfimtions, concerning the Nature^ Scope^ and Iqnds of Algebra: ihe ConlirnUion o/'Coflick ^antities or Towers^ with the manner of exprejjtng them by Alphabetical Letters :■ Jhe fignif cation of Cha^ ra&ers ufed in the Fir Si Book^ Addition j • ^ ‘‘Mul’Jptkathn]^ > both Simflt andCowfonnd. Divifwn ^ ». 3 7be like Operations in Algebraic^ FraUions^ The Rule of Three in ^antities reprefented by Letters. AnlntrodnSion to the ExtraHionof Roots ont of Algebraic^ Quantities • the compleat DoSSrine thereof being delivered in the firSi^ fecond^ third and fourth Chapters of the Second Bool{, Bow by any two of the three Members of a Square formed from a Bino^ mial Root, to find out the third Member. A CoUeliion of eafie QueSHons to exercife the preceding Rules, Concerning an Equation, and the Redu&ion of Equations, The ufe of the Redu&ions in, the foregoing Chap. ii. The manner of converting Analogies into Equations^ and Equations into Analogies. The Rejblution of Simple Equations exercised in 28. Queftions, Concerning the Refolution of fuch Compound Equations wherein there are two different Powers of the Quantity fought ^ and thofe Powers fuch^ that the higher of them is a Square , v^ofe Side or Jquare Root, is the lower Power. The Equations of the foregoing Chap. 15. are exercised in a8. Queftions, rejolved as well by Numeral as Literal A\gthx2i, Of Arithmetical Progrejjion , where Mr, OughtredV Ttventy QueHions upon this Subje^ are explained. The f