The usefulness of mathematical learning explained and demonstrated: Being mathematical lectures read in the publick schools at the University of Cambridge. By Isaac Barrow, D.D. professor of the mathematics, and master of Trinity-College, &c. to which is prefixed, the oratorical preface of our learned author, spoke before the university on his being elected Lucasian Professor of the Mathematics. Translated by the Revd. Mr. John Kirkby, of Egremond in Cumberland

People / Organizations

• Isaac Barrow (Author)

Imprint

London : Printed for Stephen Austen, at the Angel and Bible in St. Paul's Church-yard, MDCCXXXIV. [1734]

Added name

Kirkby, John, 1705-1754, translator.

Publication year

1734

ESTC No.

T92650

Grub Street ID

312415

Description

xxxii,440,[16]p.,plates : port. ; 8°.

Note

With an index

Printing wrongly attributed to William Bowyer by John Nichols, Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century, ii 56.