Book, Ray's Algebra, Part First: on the Analytic and Inductive Methods of Instruction. . .
date: label: date made
content: 1848
name: label: maker
content: Ray, Joseph
notes: label: Description
content: Joseph Ray was an extraordinarily popular American primary mathematics textbook author. His series was published by the Cincinnati firm of Truman & Smith when it first appeared in the 1830s; the high sales of Ray's textbooks encouraged Truman & Smith to engage William McGuffey to write readers. This partnership then dissolved in 1843, and Winthrop B. Smith formed a new firm, W. B. Smith & Co., in 1845, with Clark, Austin & Smith as his New York distributor. W. B. Smith & Co. was reorganized as Wilson, Hinkle & Co. (the publisher of this copy) when Smith retired; the house was renamed again as Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. in 1877 before being absorbed into the American Book Company in 1890. After Ray died in 1855, Smith commissioned additional textbooks on geometry and astronomy from other professors. This book advertises five books on arithmetic and algebra attributed to Ray and two keys. It is copyrighted 1848, and Ray is listed as professor of mathematics at Woodward College.
label: Description
content: A signature inside the front cover reads: Louisa Cox (/) Nov. 12 1857. (/) Paid 45 cts.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William M. Robinson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.3060.01
label: catalog number
content: 1986.3060.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 1986.3060
objectType: label: Object Name
content: book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 cm x 12.5 cm x 19 cm; 25/32 in x 4 29/32 in x 7 15/32 in