The young mathematician's guide : being a plain and easy introduction to the mathematicks. In five parts. Viz. I. Arithmetick, Vulgar and Decimal, with all the useful Rules; And a General Method of Extracting the Roots of all Single Powers. II. Algebra, or Arithmetick in Species; wherein the Method of Raising and Resolving, Aequations is rendered Easy; and Illustrated with Variety of Examples, and Numerical Questions. Also the whole Business of Interest and Annuities, &c. perform'd by the Pen. III. The Elements of Geometry, Contracted, and Analytically Demonstrated; With a New and Easy Method of finding the Circle's Periphery and Area to any assigned Exactness, by one Aequation only; Also a New Way of making Sines and Tangents. IV. Conick-Sections, wherein the Chief Properties, &c. of the Ellipsis, Parabola, and Hyperbola, are clearly Demonstrated. V. The Arithmetick of Infinites Explain'd, and render'd Easy; with its Application to superficial and solid Geometry. With an appendix of practical gauging. The fifth edition, carefully corrected; and new tables of compound interest at five per cent. Calculated, and added by the author, John Ward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ward, John, active 1698-1709.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--Early works to 1800.

Mathematics.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages,456 pages : illustrations ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for A. Betteseworth, at the Red-Lyon in Pater-Noster-Row; and F. Fayram, at the South-Entrance of the Royal Exchange, 1728.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Pp433-456 contain 'An appendix of practical gauging'.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T132401.

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