Cocker's Decimal arithmetick
Subtitle: wherein is shewed the nature and use of decimal fractions, in the usual rules of arithmetick, and the mesuration of plains and solids : together with tables of interest and rebate for the valuation of leases and annuities, present, or, in reversion, and rules for calculating those tables : whereunto is added his Artificial arithmetick, shewing the genesis or fabrick of the logarithms, and their use in the extraction of roots, the solving of questions in anatocism, and in other arithmetical rules in a method not usually practised : also his Algebraical arithmetick, containing the doctrine of composing and resolving an equation, with all other rules requisite for the understanding of that mysterious art, according to the method used by Mr. John Kersey in his incomparable treatise of algebra
By: composed by Edward Cocker ... ; perused, corrected, and published by John Hawkins ..
Contributors: Hawkins, John, 17th cent
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 658:10
Publisher: Printed for George Sawbridge ..., and Richard Wellington ...
Published: 1695
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 436
Subjects: Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900
Work titles: Decimal arithmetick
Notes: Advertisement: prelim. p. [16]

Added t.p. on p. [203]: Artificial arithmetick, and on p. [261]: Algebraical arithmetick

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library

Wing C4834

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1977. 1 microfilm reel. 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 658:10)

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