William Leybourn, Pleasure with Profit (1694)

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Date
1694
Author
Book title
Pleasure with Profit: Consisting of Recreations Of Divers Kinds, Viz. Numerical, Geometrical, Mechanical, Statical, Astronomical, Horometrical, Cryptographical, Magnetical, Automatical, Chymical, and Historical [Leybourn] .... To this work is also Annext, A Treatise Of Algebra, According to the Late Improvements, applied to Numerical Questions and Geometry; with a New Series for the speedy Extraction of Roots; as also a Converging Series for all manner of adjected Equations [Sault]
Publication place
London
Publisher
Richard Baldwin and John Dunton
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
  • chemistry
  • cosmography and astrology
  • cryptography
  • history
  • mathematics
  • merchandise
  • surveying
  • war
  • weights and measures
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: ALGEBRA is the Science of Quantity in General. More Particularly, 'Tis an Art of Reasoning with unknown Quantities, in order to discover their Habitude or Relation to such as are known. (Richard Sault; p. 1)
Alston
III.ii.792
Wing
L1931
Other editions
1695: Wing L1932 (Alston III.ii.793)