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Decimal and logarithmical arithmetic explained, and applied to the calculation of dividends, and other practical uses; and shewing the use of logarithms in the calculation of compound interest, and in Proportioning Dividends Amongst Creditors Ranked Pari Passu. With a Table of Logarithms from 1 to 10,000. By John Hill, Accountant.
Hill, John (Accountant)Date: 1799- Books
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Mathematical essays on several subjects: containing new improvements and discoveries in the mathematics. By the Rev. John Hellins.
Hellins, John, -1827.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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The circle squared. To which is added, a problem To Discover the longitude both at land and sea, by Means of a New Instrument which Discovers the Hour of the Day or Night in any Latitude, as well as the Latitude it self. By Richard Locke.
Locke, Richard (Mathematician)Date: M,DCC,XXX. [1730]- Books
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Clavis astrologiæ, or, A key to the whole art of astrologie : in two parts: containing I. A brief, methodical, plain introduction thereunto enabling the meanest capacity fully to understand the fundamental grounds thereof and to give a rational judgment upon any astrological figure, nativity or question whatever: also how to make a proper election upon any occasion: unto which is annexed a small book of scheams ready set. II. The Genethliacal part of astrology, briefly comprehending the whole doctrine of directions, revolutions and projections; wherein is shewn by an easie and familiar method, how to rectifie and calculate nativities several ways, and according to any author, as Regiomontanus, Argol, or Kepler: also how to set a scheam the most exact way: with all requisits belonging unto the art of directions perfomed onely by a small artificial canon of sines and tangents; also many brief useful tables covenient for such work; with other varieties not here to fore published / By Henry Coley philomat.
Coley, Henry, 1633-1704?Date: 1669- Books
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The sector and plain scale, compared. Containing I. The description of all the lines upon the sector and plain scales. II. The true use of the sector made plain and easie in several geometrical problems, and in all the cases of right lin'd trigonometry. III. All the proceeding geometrical problems, and cases of right lin'd trigonometry compared by the plain scale, and proved by Mr. Gunter's scale. IV. All the proceeding cases of right lin'd trigonometry, performed arithmetically, without the help of any sort of tables. Unto which is annexed, so much of decimal arithmetick, and the extraction of the square root, as is necessary for the working of arithmetical trigonometry. The second edition. By Roger Rea. N.P. Phi.
Rea, Roger.Date: 1727