Pleasure with profit: [microform] consisting of recreations of divers kinds, viz., numerical, geomet...
Pleasure with profit: [microform] 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 into these (and the like) sublime sciences. And to divert them from following such vices, to which youth (in this age) are so much inclin'd. By William Leybourn, philomathes. 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 extractions of roots; as also a converging series for all manner of adfected equations. By R. Sault, master of the mathematical school in Adam's Court, in Broad-street, near the Royal Exchange, London.
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London : printed for Nathaniel Rolls, at his Auction House in Petty-Cannon-Hall, near the north side of St. Paul's Church, 1695.
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1695.
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[2], VI, [2], 56, [1], 86 [i.e., 68], 31, [1], 24, 63, [1], 28, 12, 10, 9, [1], 11, [1], 26; [4], 52 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ;
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London : printed for Nathaniel Rolls, at his Auction House in Petty-Cannon-Hall, near the north side of St. Paul's Church, 1695.
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England
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1695.
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Pleasure with profit: [microform] 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 into these (and the like) sublime scienc...
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"A treatise of algebra" has half title and separate register and pagination.
Page 68 is misnumbered 86.
Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.
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Wing (2nd ed.) L1932.
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Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1987. 1 microfilm reel 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700; 1761:35).
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