The pathway to knowledge
Subtitle: Conteyning certaine briefe tables of English waights, and measures, with the proportions, kindes, and numbers belonging properly vnto the same. How to cast accompt with counters, and with pen, both in whole, and broken numbers. With the rules of cossicke, surd, binomicall, & residuall numbers, and the rule of equation, or of algebere ... Whereunto is annexed a most excellent inuention of Iulius Cæsar Patauinus, for the buying and selling of all kinde of marchandise. And lastly the order of keeping of a marchants booke, after the Italian manner, by debitor and creditor ... Together with a table ... Written in Dutch, and translated into English, by W.P.
Contributors: Phillip, William.; Caesar, Julius, of Padua.
Series: Early English books, 1475-1640 -- 388:8.
Publisher: [By Abel Jeffes and others] for William Barley, and are to be sould at his shop at the vpper end of Gratious street
Published: 1596
Place of publication: Printed at London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900.; Algebra -- Early works to 1800.; Weights and measures -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.; Bookkeeping -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1900.; Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Practique om te leeren reeckenen, cypheren ende boeckhouwen.
Work titles: Practique om te leeren reeckenen en cypheren.
Notes: A translation of: Petri, Nicolaus. Practique om te leeren reeckenen, cypheren ende boeckhouwen.

W.P. = William Phillip.

Printer's name from STC addendum.

Signatures: A⁴ ² A-B⁴ D⁴ chi² ² B-X⁴ *⁴ Y-2E⁴.

The folded leaf is signed "C".

"Finis" on X4r.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

STC (2nd ed.) 19799.

Available electronically as part of Early English books online.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1949. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 388:8).