The exact dealer's companion, : containing: I. Tables of accounts suited to all occasions of buying and selling all sorts of commodities, whether by weight, number, or measure, liquid or dry, from 1 farthing to 20 shillings, both in Scots and Sterling money. II. Tables of simple interest of money for months, from 1 to 12 inclusive, at the rates of 4, 4¹/₂, 5, 5¹/₂, and 6 percent. per annum, and tables for days from 1 to 10 inclusive, at 5, 5¹/₂, and 6 per cent. with the rates of annualrent of money from Lammas 1633, to Martinmas 1727. and how many years at every rate per cent. are contained in the said years. III. Tables, shewing upon what day of the week every month of the year begins, from 1689, to 1744. upon what day of the month Easter of Pasch falls for any year proposed; what the dominical letter for the said year is, the epact and, and golden number, and how to find the age of the moon by the epact; with a tide table for Leith and Dundee, and shewing the rising and setting of the sun for every fifth day of each month in the year, calculate for the latitude of Edinburgh, which is 56 degrees 4 minutes north. IV. Rules and tables for mensuration of superficies and solids, and some short instructions for gaging, with directions and examples for using the above tables. V. An account of the high-ways or roads of Scotland and England, and of the publick fairs in both kingdoms. /
Smith, James,merchant.
Edinburgh, : [s.n.],
Printed in the year MDCCXXVII. [1727]
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