The Augustus De Morgan Collection, Part 2: Mathematics General Collection
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Title:
The young mathematician's companion ::being a compleat tutor to the mathematicks : whereby the young beginner may be early instructed, those who have lost the opportunity of learning in their youth may with very little pains, and in a short time become proficient in this delightful and instructive science, and such whose business it is to teach, may receive much useful assistance ...
Creator:
Leadbetter, Charles,fl. 1728.
- De Morgan, Augustus,1806-1871,former owner.
- De Morgan, Augustus,1806-1871,former owner.
Date:
1739
Date in Source:
1739.
Imprint:
London : printed for J. Hodges at the Looking-Glass on London-Bridge [by Charles Jephson, in West-Smithfield],
Language:
English
Subject:
Mathematics - Early works to 1800.
Format:
[2], iv, 356 p., [1] leaf of plates :ill. ;18 cm. (12mo)
Note:
- Printer's name from colophon.
- Printed on half sheets. "Containing I. Vulgar and decimal arithmetic, extraction of roots by natural numbers, and by logarithms. II. Description and use of the sector, with the most useful definitions, theorems, and problems in geometry. III. Plain and spherical trigonometry, astronomy, dyalling, and surveying of land. IV. Curious discourses calculated to render a practical knowledge of the mathematicks more easy and familiar. The whole interspersed with delightful and useful questions, and adorned with proper schemes in order to excite the curiosity, and form the minds of youth."
- ULL copy is from the library of Augustus De Morgan.
- DOI: 10.1163/9789004460409_MOR2-b20711104
- Printer's name from colophon.
- Printed on half sheets. "Containing I. Vulgar and decimal arithmetic, extraction of roots by natural numbers, and by logarithms. II. Description and use of the sector, with the most useful definitions, theorems, and problems in geometry. III. Plain and spherical trigonometry, astronomy, dyalling, and surveying of land. IV. Curious discourses calculated to render a practical knowledge of the mathematicks more easy and familiar. The whole interspersed with delightful and useful questions, and adorned with proper schemes in order to excite the curiosity, and form the minds of youth."
- ULL copy is from the library of Augustus De Morgan.
- DOI: 10.1163/9789004460409_MOR2-b20711104
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