Arithmetick: vulgar, decimal, & algebraical. In a most plain and facile method for common capacities. Together with a treatise of simple and compound interest and rebate; with two tables for the calculation of the value of leases and annuities, payable quarterly; the one for simple, the other for compound interest, at 6. per cent. per annum; with rules for making the like for any other rate. To which is added a new, and most practical way of gauging of tunns. As also the art of cask-gauging, for the use of His Majesties Officers of the Excise
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- Arithmetick: vulgar, decimal, & algebraical. In a most plain and facile method for common capacities. Together with a treatise of simple and compound interest and rebate; with two tables for the calculation of the value of leases and annuities, payable quarterly; the one for simple, the other for compound interest, at 6. per cent. per annum; with rules for making the like for any other rate. To which is added a new, and most practical way of gauging of tunns. As also the art of cask-gauging, for the use of His Majesties Officers of the Excise
- New way of gauging the frustum of a pyramid or conical tunn; Short treatise of simple & compound interest; Stereometry; Some practical rules & examples for cask-gauging
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London : printed for J.A. and are to be sold by most book sellers, 1675.
- Publication year
- 1675
- ESTC No.
- R217772
- Grub Street ID
- 92520
- Description
- [16], 206, [2] p., plate : ill., tables ; 8°.
- Note
- With an engraved frontispiece portrait of John Mayne
Epistle dedicatory and the preface signed: John Mayne
Title leaf is a cancel
With a table of contents
"A short treatise of simple & compound interest" and "Stereometry" have separate title pages dated 1673; pagination and register are continuous. "A new way of gauging the frustum of a pyramid or conical tunn" and "Some practical rules & examples for cask-gauging" have divisional titles; pagination and register are continuous
With a final leaf of errata and a notice advertising John Mayne as a teacher of mathematics
The words "vulger .. algebraical." are bracketed together on the title page.