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Logarithmotechnia, or The construction, and use of the logarithmeticall tables; : by the help of which, multiplication is performed by addition, division by subtraction, the extraction of the square root by bipartition, and of the cube root by tripartition, &c. Finally, the golden rule, and the resolution of triangles, as well right lined, as sphericall by addition and substraction

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Publication date: M.DC.XXXV. [1635]
Call number: 30937
Creator: Wingate, Edmund (1596-1656)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (12mo)
Associated people: Flesher, Miles, (-1664,); Briggs, Henry, (1561-1630.)
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Arithmetique made easie, : in tvvo bookes. The former, of naturall arithmetique: containing a perfect method for the true knowledge and practice of arithmetique, according to the ancient vulgar way, without dependance vpon any other author for the grounds thereof. The other of artificiall arithmetique, discovering how to resolve all questions of arithmetique by addition and subtraction. Together with an appendix, resolving likewise by addition and subtraction all questions, that concerne equation of time, interest of money, and valuation of purchases, leases, annuities, and the like
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A briefe treatise for the measuring of glasse, board, timber, or stone, square or round. : Being performed only by simple addition and substraction, and that in whole numbers, without any multiplication, or division at all
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A breefe treatise of sphaericall triangles, : wherein is handled the sixteene cases of a right angled triangle, being all extracted out of one diagram, and reduced into theorems, with the totall sine in the first place, so that by addition onely, they may be effected. As also, the twelue cases of an oblique sphaericall triangle, being likewise reduced into theorems, whereby with one or two additions at the most, any of them may be resolued by helpe of this canon following made with secants, and that only by such numbers as are therein to be founde, without first making any substraction, or vsing any mentall operation. Most commodious and necessarie
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Arithmeticke abreviated. : Teaching the art of tennes or decimals to worke all questions in fractions as whole numbers, without reduction: an easier and plainer way than the vulgar. Shewing the use also of Napiers bones, by which multiplication and division is performed without charging the memory at all to those that will make use of them. As also the extracting of the square and cube roots, with divers applications thereof
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A briefe treatise for the measuring of glasse, board, timber, or stone, square or round. : Being performed only by simple addition and substraction, and that in whole numbers, without any multiplication, or division at all