Record's arithmetick: or, 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 then in former time hath been set forth: made by Mr. Robert Record, D. in Physick. Afterward augmente by Mr. John Dee. And since enlarged with a third part of rules of practise, 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 coynes, as they are currant at this present time. By John Mellis. And now diligently perused, corrected, illustrated and enlarged; with an appendix of figurative numbers, and the extraction of their roots, according to the method of Christian Urstius: with tables of board and timber measure; and new tables of interest, after 10. and 8. 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 practise 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, D. in Physick. Afterward augmente by Mr. John Dee. And since enlarged with a third part of rules of practise, 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 coynes, as they are currant at this present time. By John Mellis. And now diligently perused, corrected, illustrated and enlarged; with an appendix of figurative numbers, and the extraction of their roots, according to the method of Christian Urstius: with tables of board and timber measure; and new tables of interest, after 10. and 8. 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
  • Ground of arts Third part, or, Addition to this book: entreateth of brief rules, called rules of practise
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Imprint
London: printed by James Flesher, and are to be sold by Edward Dod at the signe of the Gun in Ivie-lane, 1654.
Publication year
1654-1654
ESTC No.
R6442
Grub Street ID
126785
Description
[26], 629, [1] p. : diagrams, tables ; 8⁰
Note
Originally published in 1543 as: The ground of artes.

The first leaf is blank.

"The third part, or, Addition to this book: entreateth of brief rules, called rules of practise. ... Set forth by John Mellis" has divisional title page on 2E2r.

The paging as given in the table of contents does not correspond with the text after p. 451, but agrees with that of an earlier edition not containing an extra chapter, "Questions of factoridge & interest" (p. 451-463), inserted between the second and third chapters of the third part.