Arithmetick : vulgar, decimal, instrumental, algebraical : in four parts ... whereunto is added the construction and use of several tables of interest and annuities, weights and measures, both of our own and other countries / by William Leybourn.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.

Contributor:

Billy, Jacques de, 1602-1679.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Arithmetic--Early works to 1900.

Arithmetic.

Algebra--Early works to 1800.

Algebra.

Physical Description:

4 volumes in 1 ( page, 14 unnumbered pages, 392 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, portrait ; 17 cm

6x9 in.

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by R. and W. Leybourn, and are to be sold by George Sawbridge, 1659.

Contents:

(from t.p.) I. Vulgar arithmetick, both in whole numbers and fractions, in a most plain and easie method

II. Decimal arithmetick, with the ground and reason thereof, illustrated by divers examples

III. Instrumental arithmetick, exactly performing all questions of what nature soever in a decimal way, by scales, with much more ease and facility then can be effected, either by vulgar or decimal arithmetick, the work of reduction being wholly avoided. Nothing in this kind having been hitherto published by any

IV. Algebraical arithmetick, conteining an abridgement of the precepts of that art, and the use thereof, illustrated by examples and questions of divers kinds.

Notes:

Pt. 4: "... an abridgement of The precepts of algebra: written in French by James de Billy, and now translated into English, with divers questions added, which were not in the original."

Micro-opaque. New York : Readex Microprint, 1978. 5 cards ; 23 x 15 cm. (Landmarks II)

OCLC:

9062609