A mathematical miscellany : in four parts. ... / first published by Samuel Fuller ... ; and now enlarged, revised and corrected, by the editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuller, Samuel, -1736.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematical recreations--Early works to 1800.

Mathematical recreations.

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

Mathematics.

Scientific recreations--Early works to 1800.

Scientific recreations.

Genre:

Problems and exercises.

Booksellers' advertisements -- Ireland -- 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Smith, Benjamin H. (autograph)

Smith, George, M.D., Upper Darby (bookplate)

Physical Description:

190 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates (2 folded) : illustrations ; 17 cm (12mo)

Edition:

The third edition, corrected.

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Printed and sold by Isaac Jackson and Son ..., 1770.

Contents:

(from t.p.) I. An essay towards the probable solution of Gordon's forty five surprizing geographical paradoxes ...

II. Fifty five new and amazing paradoxes and aenigmas ... III. Answers to the hundred questions, formerly left unanswered in Hill's Arithmetick and Alexander's Algebra ...

IV. Miscellaneous rules about forming aenigmas, questions, &c. A discourse concerning the principles of astronomy, doctrine of eclipses, properties of pendulums, equation of time and chronology, concluding with a perpetual almanack, and rules for finding all the moveable feasts in both new and old stile. [An introduction to the art of dialling]

Notes:

Part IV has special t.p. (p. [105]).

Signatures: A-H¹².

Advertisements on p. [1]-[2] at end.

Cited in:

ESTC T112929

OCLC:

21932115