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, aswel 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 of Exon, philo-accomptant

People / Organizations

• Joshua Jordaine (Author)
• John Richardson ("printed by")

Imprint

London: printed by John Richardson for the author, and are to be sold by John Taylor at the Ship in Pauls Church Yard, 1687.

Added name

Taylor, John (Bookseller), bookseller.; Richardson, John, active 1675-1703, printer.

Publication year

1687

ESTC No.

R217083

Grub Street ID

91912

Description

[32], 303, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates (fold.) : tables ; 8°.

Note

With an initial imprimatur leaf, dated and signed: 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 J1018C; ESTC R179037) names six booksellers (not including Taylor). 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.