Practical geometry: in two parts: the first, shewing how to perform the four species of arithmetick, (viz. addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division,) together with reduction, and the rule of proportion in figures. The second, containing a hundred geometricall questions, with their solutions and demonstrations, some of them being performed arithmetically, and others geometrically, yet all without the help of algebra. A worke very necessary for all men, but principally for surveyors of land, engineers, and all other students in the mathematicks
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Main Author: Rudd, Thomas (Author)
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Language:English
Published: London Printed by Robert Leybourn, for Robert Boydell, at the bulwark neer the Tower: and Samuel Satterthwait, at the Globe in Pauls Church-yard, neer the west end 1650
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Item Description:Annotation on Thomason copy: "May 4 14". - In two parts, each with separate pagination; signatures continuous. - Part 2 has separate dated title page, reading: A hundred geometrical questions, with their solutions and demonstrations: most of them being resolved both arithmetically and geometrically, by lines and numbers, &c. By Captain Thomas Rudd, chiefe engineer to His late Majesty. - Reproduction of the original in the British Library. - Thomason, E.601[3]. - Wing (2nd ed.), R2170
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