An introduction to so much of the arts and sciences Fleuron T139094-5

Fleuron from book:An introduction to so much of the arts and sciences, more immediately concerned in an excellent education for trade in its low scenes and more genteel professions, And For Preparing Young Gentlemen in Grammar Schools to attend Lectures in the Universities. In four parts. Part I. The Theory and diffusive Practice of Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal; the Arithmetic of Algebra by Transposition introduced, as it gives Rules to the Accomptant; Annuities for Time; the Principles of Mr. De Moivre, Mr. Simpson, and of the Author, in estimating Annuities for Single Lives, consider'd from the Equity in sinking Money. Digested into Systems, as Trade, young Ladies, or the Concerns of the Gentry may require. Part II. An extensive Course of Geometry; Mensuration; an Introduction to Gauging and Surveying; Plain Trigonometry applied to the Merchant's and Surveyor's Use; the Astronomical Principles of Geography; the Construction and Use of Maps; the Mensuration of the Globes of the Solar System, and of their Orbits; the Estimations of Artificers; and the Debates of the Globes concerning the Earth's two Motions, to effect the Seasons, &c. Expresly designed to remove that general Co

Date

1765

Mapmaker / publisher

Randall, Joseph

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

map

Original size

907 × 954 pixels

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