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The principles of arithmetick: with helpfull observations, making the entrance easie, and the practice pleasant: teaching the five ordinary parts of arithmetick, the usuall way: the performance of multiplication and division, onely by addition and subraction: with new an notable abridgments: rules of practice, with extraordinarie helps: and therein, some excellent observations, for the easie casting up of interest. The doctrine of fractions, the foure rules of arithmetick: recreations extraordinary; or the easie performance of (seeming) impossibilities. By William Webster.

195 pp.

Webster, William,

The sea-mans practice, contayning a fundamentall probleme in navigation, experimentally verified: namely, touching the compasse of the earth and sea, and the quantity of a degree in our English measures. Also, an exact method or forme of keeping a reckoning at sea, in an kinde or manner of sayling. With certaine tables and other rules usefull in navigation. As also in the plotting and surveying of places. The latitude of the principall places in England. The finding of currents at sea; and what allowance is to be given in respect of them. By Richard Norwood, reade of the mathematicks.

142 pp.

Norwood, Richard,

The trissotetras: or, a most exquisite table for resolving all manner of triangles, whether plaine or sphericall, rectangular or obliquangular, with greater facility, then ever hitherto hath been practised: most necessary for all such as would attaine to the exact knowledge of fortification, dyaling, navigation, surveying, architecture, the art of shadowing, taking of heights, and distances, the use of both the globes, perspective, the skill of making the maps, the theory of the planets, the calculating of their motions, and of all other astronomicall computations whatsoever. Now lately invented, and perfected, explained, commented on, and, with all possible brevity, and perspicuity, in the hiddest, and most re-searched mysteries, from the very first grounds of the science it selfe, proved, and convincingly demonstrated. By Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie Knight. Published for the benefit of those that are mathematically affected.

Urquhart, Thomas,

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