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Record Nr.

UNISA996390075203316

Autore

Mayne John <fl. 1673-1675.>

Titolo

Arithmetick [[electronic resource] ] : 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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed for J.A. and are to be sold by most book sellers, 1675

Descrizione fisica

[16], 206, [2] p., plate : ill., tables

Soggetti

Interest

Arithmetic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

With an engraved frontispiece portrait of John Mayne.

Epistle dedicatory and the preface signed: John Mayne.

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.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018