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 it now is. With some additional treatises, I. Of the Cono-cuneus... II. Of angular sections; and other things relating thereunto, and to trigonometry. III. Of the angle of contact ... IV. Of combinations, alternations, and aliquot parts
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Type of record: Book
Title: 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 it now is. With some additional treatises, I. Of the Cono-cuneus... II. Of angular sections; and other things relating thereunto, and to trigonometry. III. Of the angle of contact ... IV. Of combinations, alternations, and aliquot parts
Other titles: Cono-cuneus; A treatise of angular sections; A defense of the treatise of the angle of contact; A discourse of combinations, alternations and aliquot parts
Classmark: BC Sc q/WAL
Creator(s): Wallis, John (1616-1703)
Publisher: Printed by J. Playford, for R. Davis
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1685
Language: English
Size and medium: [10] p.l., 33, 36-301, 304-5, 304bis-374 p; [2] p.l., 17 p; 1 p.l., 76 (i.e. 176) p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/286583
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002305859705181
Description
Contents list followed by "A proposal about printing a Treatise of algebra, historical and practical", dated 1683.
"Cono-cuneus" has separate title-page dated 1684, and separate pagination; "A treatise of angular sections", "A defense of the treatise of the angle of contact" and "A discourse of combinations... [etc.]" have continuous pagination throughout but separate title-pages, the first two dated 1684 and the third 1685.
Irregular pagination; the final leaf is numbered 75-76 instead of 175-6.
Indexed in: Wing W613; also "Cono-cuneus", W565, and "A treatise of angular sections", W614.
Additional description
Bound with 1 other publication in a volume lettered: WALLIS'S TREATISE OF ALGEBRA. LONDON 1685. Volume contents: 1. Wallis, John: A treatise of algebra, 1685. -- 2. Caswell, John: A brief (but full) account of the doctrine of trigonometry, 1685
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