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  • Title: The ground of arts : teaching the perfect worke and practise of arithmeticke, both in whole numbers and fractions, after a more easie and exact forme then in former time hath beene set forth: made by M. Robert Record D. in Physick. Afterward, augmented by Mr. Iohn Dee. And since enlarged with a third part of rules of practise, abridged into a briefer method then hitherto hath been published, with diuers necessary rules incident to the trade of merchandise: with tables of the valuation of all coynes, as they are currant at this present time: by Iohn Mellis. And now diligently perused, corrected, illustrated and enlarged; with an appendix of figurate numbers ... with tables of board and timber measure; and new tables of interest vpon interest ... with the true value of annuities to be bought or sold present, respited, or in reuersion: the first calculated by R.C. but corrected, and the latter diligently calculated by Robert Hartwell, philomathemat
  • Contributor: Record, Robert [Author]; R. C [Other]; Mellis, John [Other]; Dee, John [Other]; Hartwell, Robert [Other]
  • imprint: London: Printed by Thomas Harper, for Iohn Harison, and are to be sold at his shop in Pater noster Row, at the signe of the Vnicorne, 1636
    Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999
  • Published in: Early English Books Online / EEBO
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource ([26], 620 p)
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Arithmetic Early works to 1900
  • Place of reproduction: Ann Arbor, Mich: UMI, 1999
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1428:7)
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  • Footnote: "The third part or addition to this booke .. set forth by Iohn Mellis" has a divisional title page; pagination and register are continuous
    Reproduction of the original in the British Library
    STC (2nd ed.), 20810
    Some pages torn and pages 615-20 lacking. Title page, and pages 148-65, 198-205, and 610-end from Bodleian Library spliced at end
  • Description: eebo-0018