A plain and familiar method for attaining the knowledge and practice of common arithmetic : containing all the useful rules both in whole numbers, and fractions, vulgar and decimal, extraction of the square and cube-roots, simple and compound interest, annuities, &c, delivered in a more practical and correct manner, than in any work hitherto extant
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Title: A plain and familiar method for attaining the knowledge and practice of common arithmetic : containing all the useful rules both in whole numbers, and fractions, vulgar and decimal, extraction of the square and cube-roots, simple and compound interest, annuities, &c, delivered in a more practical and correct manner, than in any work hitherto extant
Other titles: Arithmetique made easie
Classmark: Education 375.5109/WIN
Creator(s): Wingate, Edmund (1596-1656)
Additional creator(s): Kersey, John (1616-1690?) (Other); Shelley, George (1666?-1736?) (Other); Dodson, James (1757) (Other); De Morgan, Augustus (1806-1871) (Former owner)
Related people: Kersey, John; Shelley, George; Dodson, James; De Morgan, Augustus
Publisher: Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes and R. Baldwin, in Pater-noster-Row, A. Miller in the Strand, John Rivington in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and S. Crowder and Co. on London Bridge
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1760
Language: English
Size and medium: x, 401, [13] p., [1] leaf of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/405614
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991009248829705181
Additional description
Bookplate of Charles Compton, Merton College, Oxford
Provenance
ULL copy is from the library of Augustus De Morgan.
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