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Martindale (Adam)

The Country-Survey-Book: or, Land Meters Vade-Mecum. Wherein the Principles and Practical Rules for surveying of Land, are so plainly (though briefly) delivered, that any one of ordinary parts (understanding how to add, subtract, multiply and divide,) may by the help of this small Treatise alone, and a few cheap instruments easy to be procured, Measure a parcel of Land, and with judgement and expedition Plot it, and give up the Content thereof. With an Appendix, containing Twelve Problems, touching Compound Interest and Annuities; and a Method to Contract the work of Fellowship and Alligation Alternative, very considerable in many Cases. Illustrated with Copper Plates.

London: Printed for R. Clavel, and G. Sawbridge, 1702.,

843,76 €

Forest Books William Laywood

(Grantham, Reino Unido)

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Autor
Martindale (Adam)
Editores
London: Printed for R. Clavel, and G. Sawbridge, 1702.
Materia
Mathematics ECONOMICS

Descripción

12mo, small blind stamp on title, 3 folding engraved plates, some browning of the text, [12], 120, 191-226, 229-234 pp., quite tightly bound, contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt in compartments, upper hinge cracked and almost detached, morocco label, with the bookplate of the Earls of Macclesfield. ìMartindale, was a prominent nonconformist preacher who eked out a livelihood as a mathematical practitioner. He invented a ëPlain and Easy Instrumentí for making dials, and wrote on navigation and surveying, besides publishing an almanack (1675-7), covering in fact the whole range of Activities of a mathematical practitioner,.î - Taylor, Mathematical Practitioners, Tudor & Stuart, 211. Originally published in 1682, this reached an eighth edition in 1711.
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