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1] Samuel Horsley.(Bishop of ST.ASAPH) M. De LUC'S, Rules for the Measurement of Heights by the Barometer, compared with theory, and reduced to English measures of length, and adapted to FAHRENHEIT's Scale of the Thermometer; with tables and precepts, for expediting the practical application of them. Addressed to Sir John Pringle. Redde at the Royal Society, February 17, 1774. W. Bowyer and J.Nichols, 1774, 90pp. folding plate. 2] Atwood, G. (George) 1746-1807. An Essay on the Arithmetic of Factors : applied to Various Computations which occur in the Practice of Numbers printed for T. Cadell [1786] 72 pp. 3] Benjamin Martin, 1705-1782. Venus in the Sun: : being an explication of the rationale of that Great Phænomenon; of the several methods used by astronomers for computing the quantity and phases thereof; and of the manner of applying a transit of Venus over the Solar dDsk, for the discovery of the Parallax of the Sun; settling the theory of that planets's motion, and ascertaining the dimensions of the solar system. [includes Halley's Dissertation on the method of determining the parallax of the Sun by the transit of Venus June 6. 1761] Printed W. Owen, London 1761. xi, [1] 46pp. 2 plates, one folding. 4] Anonymous work [William Webster]. A Small Treatise of the Square and Cube : wherein is shewn how to find the value of the remainder, or fractions, in either of them without the trouble of adding pairs of noughts to the one, or ternaries of noughts to the other. Which may be useful to all persons conversant therein; and likewise, to those who are teachers of them to others. To which is added, some diverting questions readily performed by the square.Second Edition, 27 pp [1]. printed by J. Read, and sold by Nathaniel Witham London 1740. 5] Anonymous work [William Webster], A Supplement to the Square and Cube : Wherein is set forth that the extraction of the Square and Cube, with pairs or Ternaries of Cyphers, in order to find the value of the remainder, or fractions in either of them, is unnecessary : For in small numbers they are erroneous, and in large numbers needless. printed by J. Read; and sold by N. Witham, London 1740 [2], ii, [1], 6-67, [1]p Togetther in one small quarto volume, half leather [jount wear, firm] over marbled boards, leather title 'Mathematical Tracks'. Interesting Collection of Rare Mathematical Works by Eminent Authors. light soiling to initial tittle, occational contemporary marfinal note. [Rare on Copac]. Excellent. Seller Inventory # 1325
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