The usher : Comprising arithmetic in whole numbers; federal money; decimal and vulgar fractions; a description and use of Coggeshall's sliding rule; some uses of Gunter's scale; superficial and solid measuring; geometrical definitions and problems; surveying; the surveyor's pocket companion, or trigonometry made easy; a table of sines; a table of tangents; miscellany; tables of the weight and value of gold coins. Calculated and designed for youth. By Ezekiel Little, A.M. Published agreeably to act of Congress. [Two lines of verse].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Little, Ezekiel, 1762-1840.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surveying--Early works to 1800.

Surveying.

Arithmetic--Early works to 1800.

Arithmetic.

Arithmetic--Problems, exercises, etc--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Manuals (Handbooks).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240p. )

Other Title:

Usher

Place of Publication:

Exeter [N.H.] : Printed by H. Ranlet, and sold at his book-store; sold also, by the booksellers in Boston, Newburyport, Portsmouth, and other places, 1799.

Notes:

Subscribers' list, p. [235]-240.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Evans, 35734

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2391

English Short Title Catalog, W29645.

OCLC:

642788171