Mr. Jordaine's duodecimal arithmetick: being the most concise and exact method extant. In three books. Containing notation, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, reduction, extraction of the square and cube roots, rule of proportion, direct and reverse. Duodecimally perform'd, and very practically applied to the measuring of all sorts of superficies and solids, as board, glass, &c. timber, stone, &c. And also to the gauging of all sorts of brewers tons, casks, &c. 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

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  • Mr. Jordaine's duodecimal arithmetick: being the most concise and exact method extant. In three books. Containing notation, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, reduction, extraction of the square and cube roots, rule of proportion, direct and reverse. Duodecimally perform'd, and very practically applied to the measuring of all sorts of superficies and solids, as board, glass, &c. timber, stone, &c. And also to the gauging of all sorts of brewers tons, casks, &c. 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
  • Duodecimal arithmetick
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Imprint
London: printed for Edmund Parker, at the Bible and Crown in Lombard-Street, 1720. The fourth edition.; ..
Added name
Parker, Edmund, -1739, bookseller.
Publication year
1720
ESTC No.
T170834
Grub Street ID
208505
Description
[18], 303, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., table ; 8°.
Note
A reissue of the sheets of the 1687 edition (which was itself published in two issues, Wing J1018C and J1018D; ESTC R179037 and R217083), with a cancel title leaf replacing the imprimatur and dedication; an earlier Parker reissue (1718) was styled "the second edition" (ESTC N509493)

Includes the advertisement on p. [304] for "Philip Lea globe-maker"; Lea died in 1700.