A treatise of algebra, both historical and practical. Shewing, the original, progress, and advancement thereof, from time to time; and by what steps it hath attained to the heighth at which now it is. With some additional treatises, I. Of the cono-cuneus; being a body representing in part a conus, in part a cuneus. II. Of angular sections; and other things relating thereunto, and to trigonometry. III. Of the angle of contact; with other things appertaining to the composition of magnitudes, the inceptives of magnitudes, and the composition of motions, with the results thereof. IV. Of combinations, alternations, and aliquot parts. By John Wallis, D.D. professor of geometry in the University of Oxford; and a member of the Royal Society, London

People / Organizations

• John Playford ("printed by")
• John Wallis (Author)

Imprint

London : printed by John Playford, for Richard Davis, bookseller, in the University of Oxford, M.DC.LXXXV. [1685]

Added name

Caswell, John, 1654 or 1655-1712. Brief (but full) account of the doctrine of trigonometry.; Wallis, John, 1616-1703. Cono-cuneus, or, The shipwright's circular wedge.; Wallis, John, 1616-1703. Defense of the treatise of the angle of contact.; Wallis, John, 1616-1703. Discourse of combinations, alternations, and aliqot parts.; Wallis, John, 1616-1703. Treatise of the angular sections.; Wallis, John, 1616-1703. Treatise of algebra, both historical and practical. Prospectus.

Publication year

1685

ESTC No.

R12258

Grub Street ID

60462

Description

[20], 33, 36-374; [4], 17, [1]; [2], 76 [i.e. 176]; [2], 17, [1] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 2°.

Note

With the 1683 proposal for printing bound after the contents

"Cono-cuneus: or, The shipwright's circular wedge" and "A treatise of angular sections" each have separate pagination, register, and separate title page dated 1684. They may also have been issued separately (Wing W565 and W614). "A brief (but full) account of the doctrine of trigonometry ... by John Caswell ..." (Wing C1252) has separate pagination, register, and title page dated 1685

"A defense of the treatise of the angle of contact" and "A discourse of combinations, alternations, and aliqot parts" each have separate title page dated 1684 and 1685, respectively. Pagination and register are continuous from "A treatise of angular sections"

The errata leaf p.175 and 176 of the third sequence is misnumbered 75 and 76

Frontispiece portrait.