The ground of arts: teaching the perfect work and practise of arithmetick, both in whole numbers and fractions, after a more easie and exact form than in former time hath been set forth: made by M. Robert Record, D. in Physick. Afterward, augmented by M. John Dee. And since enlarged with a third part of rules of practise, abridged into a briefer method than hitherto hath been published, with divers necessary rules incident to the trade of merchandise: with tables of the valuation of all coyns, as they are currant at this present time. By John Mellis. And now diligently perused, corrected, illustrated and enlarged; with an appendix of figurate numbers, ... and new tables of interest ... the first calculated by R.C. ... and the latter diligently calculated by Rob't Hartwell, philomathemat.

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  • The ground of arts: teaching the perfect work and practise of arithmetick, both in whole numbers and fractions, after a more easie and exact form than in former time hath been set forth: made by M. Robert Record, D. in Physick. Afterward, augmented by M. John Dee. And since enlarged with a third part of rules of practise, abridged into a briefer method than hitherto hath been published, with divers necessary rules incident to the trade of merchandise: with tables of the valuation of all coyns, as they are currant at this present time. By John Mellis. And now diligently perused, corrected, illustrated and enlarged; with an appendix of figurate numbers, ... and new tables of interest ... the first calculated by R.C. ... and the latter diligently calculated by Rob't Hartwell, philomathemat.
  • Third part, or, Additions to this booke.
People / Organizations
Imprint
London: printed by M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Harison, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls-Church-yard, [1646].
Publication year
1646-1646
ESTC No.
R182546
Grub Street ID
72614
Description
[26], 630 p. : tables ; 8⁰
Note
Printer's name from Wing CD.

"The third part, or, Additions to this booke," has separate title page, dated 1646; pagination and register are continuous.Citation/references Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), R650Subject Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900.

Mathematics -- Tables -- Early works to 1800. Added name Dee, John, 1527-1608.

Mellis, John, fl. 1588.