Duodecimal arithmetick: viz. Notation. Addition. Subtraction. Multiplication. Division. Reduction. Extraction of the-square, and cube roots. Rule of proportion-direct, and reverse. Duodecimally performed, and very practically applied to the measuring of all sorts of superficies, and solids, as board, glass, &c. timber, stone, &c. But chiefly to the gauging of all sorts of brewers tuns and casks, to find the whole content, or the vacuity or remaining liquor of either, and that with more ease and expedition, than by vulgar or decimal arithmetick. Very useful for all sorts of men, as well gentlemen as others, but especially for merchants, writing masters, and all measuring artificers. And all the rules made plain, and easie for the meanest capacity. By Joshua Jordaine on Exon, philo-accomptant

People / Organizations

• Joshua Jordaine (Author)
• Thomas Passinger Sr. ("printed for")
• John Richardson ("printed by")
• George Conyers ("sold by")

Imprint

London: printed by John Richardson for the author, and are to be sold by Rich. Walker near the Kings-head in the Old Change, gauger; Thomas Passinger at the 3 Bibles on London-Bridge, Benj. Billingsley at the Printing-Press by the Royal Exchange, George Conyers at the Rin without Ludgate, Will. Nott in the Pallmall, at the King and Queens Arms, John Eaglesfield at the Cross-Keys in Fleet-street, 1687.

Added name

Richardson, John, active 1675-1703, printer.

Publication year

1687

ESTC No.

R179037

Grub Street ID

70624

Description

[32], 303, [1] p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 8°.

Note

Imprimatur on first leaf: Licensed, March the 8th. 1687. Robert Midgeley

The words "Square, .. roots." and "Direct, .. reverse." are on two lines, preceded by brackets linking them to the preceding phrases

With an advertisement on the last page for "Philip Lea globe-maker"

Another issue of the same year (Wing J1018D; ESTC R217083) names only one bookseller, John Taylor, in the imprint. Reissued by Edmund Parker as the "second edition" in 1718 (ESTC N509493), and again as the "fourth edition" in 1720 (ESTC T170834), the latter with title "Mr. Jordaine's duodecimal arithmetick"

Signatures: [superscript pi][A]]8 [superscript pi]B]8 A-T]8.