The young man's new universal companion; or, gentleman's pocket intelligencer. Containing, I. The Principles of the English Language; Directions for Writing; Specimens of Letters; Forms of Address; and Rules for Penmanship. II. Forms of Wills and Deeds; Notes, Receipts, Bills of Parcels and Book Debts, with many other mercantile Matters, as Shipping, Invoices, and the Nature of Exports and Imports. III. Arithmetic in general; Vulgar and Decimal Fractions; Extraction of Roots, and their Uses; Duodecimals and their Application to Artificers' Works; Board and Timber Measure. IV. Chronology and Geometry, with some of their most useful Problems; Plain Trigonometry; the Geography of Maps; Navigation and Astronomy, including a full Account of the Georgium Sidus, or New Planet. Dialling, with the newly invented Pocket Card-Dial. The colouring of Dial-Boards, and preparing Colours for beautifying Maps, &c. V. The Mensuration of superficial and solid Bodies. Easy Methods of surveying Land-Cask G

People / Organizations

• Daniel Fenning (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for S. Crowder, Pater-Noster-Row. - 1788.

Publication year

1788-1788

ESTC No.

T52888

Grub Street ID

279887

Description

iv,[8],432p.,plate ; 12⁰

Note

Braces in title.

Price from imprint: price Two Shillings and Sixpence.