Record's arithmetick, or, The ground of arts; teaching the perfect work and practice of arithmetick, both in whole numbers and fractions, after a more easie and exact form then in former time hath been set forth. Made by Mr Robert Record, Dr in physick. Afterwards augmente by Mr. John Dee. And since enlarged with a third part of rules of practice, abridged into a briefer method then 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 inlarged; with an appendix of figurative numbers, and the extraction of their roots, according to the method of Christian-Urstitius; with tables of board and timber-measure, and new tables of interest, after 10, 8, and 6 per 100; with the true value of annuities to be bought or sold present, respited or in reversion: the first calculated by R.C. but corrected;

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  • Record's arithmetick, or, The ground of arts; teaching the perfect work and practice of arithmetick, both in whole numbers and fractions, after a more easie and exact form then in former time hath been set forth. Made by Mr Robert Record, Dr in physick. Afterwards augmente by Mr. John Dee. And since enlarged with a third part of rules of practice, abridged into a briefer method then 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 inlarged; with an appendix of figurative numbers, and the extraction of their roots, according to the method of Christian-Urstitius; with tables of board and timber-measure, and new tables of interest, after 10, 8, and 6 per 100; with the true value of annuities to be bought or sold present, respited or in reversion: the first calculated by R.C. but corrected;
  • Ground of artes
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Imprint
London: printed by James Flesher, and are to be sold by Robert Boulter, at the Turks-head in Bishopsgate-street, near the great James, 1668.
Publication year
1668-1668
ESTC No.
R29260
Grub Street ID
112262
Description
[22], 536 p. ; 8⁰
Note
Originally published in 1543 as: The ground of artes.Citation/references Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), R647