A treatise of algebra, both historical and practical
Subtitle: shewing the original, progress, and advancement thereof, from time to time, and by what steps it hath attained to the heighth at which it now is : with some additional treatises ...
By: by John Wallis ...
Contributors: Wallis, John, 1616-1703.; Wallis, John, 1616-1703.; Wallis, John, 1616-1703.; Wallis, John, 1616-1703.
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 854:14.
Publisher: Printed by John Playford, for Richard Davis ...
Published: 1971
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Algebra -- Early works to 1800.; Geometry -- Early works to 1800 -- Early works to 1800.; Mathematics -- Early works to 1800.; Trigonometry -- Early works to 1800.; Conic sections -- Early works to 1800.; Wedges -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Cono-cuneus, or, The shipwright's circular wedge; Cono-cuneus; Shipwright's circular wedge; Treatise of angular sections; Defense of the treatise of the angle of contact; Discourse of combinations, alternations, and aliquot parts
Notes: "Cono-cuneus, or, The shipwright's circular wedge, that is, a body resembling a conus, in part a cuneus, geometrically considered : in a letter to the Honourable Sir Robert Moray, Knight" (17 p., [7] leaves of plates) has separate t.p. dated 1684 and separate paging.

"A treatise of angular sections" (68 p., [2] leaves of plates) has separate t.p. dated 1684.

"A defense of the treatise of the angle of contact" (p. [69]-105) has special t.p. dated 1684.

"A discourse of combinations, alternations, and aliquot parts" (p. [107]-76 [i.e. 176]) has separate t.p. dated 1685.

"A treatise of the angular sections" is also identified as Wing W614 and appears separately on reel 402:29.

"Cono-cuneus, or, The shipwright's circular wedge" is also identified as Wing W565 and appears separately at reel 1079:8.

Reproduction of original in British Library and Union Theological Seminary Library, New York.

Wing W613 (Treatise of algebra)

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1971, 1978. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 : 402:29, 854:14)