The arthimetical and mathematical repository Being a new improved system of practical arithmetic, in all its branches; designed for the use of schools, academies, counting-houses, and also for the benefit of private persons who have not the assistance of a teacher. In four volumes. By John Eadon, author of the Arithmetician's guide, and teacher of the mathematics in the free writing and grammar schools, Sheffield. Third edition. Volume I. In three books. Book I. Arithmetic of whole numbers, with their various applications to trade and mercantile business. II. Vulgar and decimal fractions, the explanation and use of logarithms, extraction of roots of all powers, applied to a variety of subjects. III. The strength and stress of timber, description and use of the sliding rule; practical geometry; mensuration of superficies and solids, by the pen and sliding rule; of standing timber, and all kinds of artificer's work; absolute, relative and specific weight of bodies, copiously exemplished. Also seventy promiscuous questions upon a variety of subjects, useful, instructing, and entertaining
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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London
Printed for the author, and sold by G.G. and J. Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row
1795, M,DCC,XCV. [1795]
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Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Item Description: | English Short Title Catalog, T225243. - No more published? - With a list of subscribers. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - The dedication is dated: Sheffield, Dec. 12, 1793 |
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Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (v.1([4],vii-xxi,[3],392p.),plate) ill.,port 8° |