Pleasure with profit
Subtitle: consisting of recreations of divers kinds, viz. numerical,geometrical, mechanical, statical, astronomical, horometrical, cryptographical, magnetical, automatical, chymical, and historical. Published to recreate ingenious spirits; and to induce them to make farther scrutiny intor these (and the like) sublime sciences. And to divert them from following such vices, to which (in this age) are so much inclin'd
By: By William Leybourn. To this work is also annext, A treatise of algebra, according to the late improvements, applied to numerical questions and geometry; with a new series for the speedy extraction of roots; as also a coverging series for all manner of adfected equations. By R. Sault.
Contributors: Sault, Richard, d. 1702.; Marchmont, Alexander Hume, afterwards Campbell, 2d earl of, 1675-1740.
Publisher: Printed for R. Baldwin and J. Dunton
Published: 1694
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
Subjects: Scientific recreations; Algebra; Algebra -- Early works to 1800
Notes: Each of the twelve sections has separate paging and signatures.