The young mathematician's guide. Being a plain and easie introduction to the mathematicks. In five parts. Viz. I. Arithmetick, vulgar and decimal, with all the useful rules; and a general method of extracting the roots of all single powers. II. Algebra, or arithmetick in species; wherein the method of raising and resolving equations is rendered easie; and illustrated with variety of examples, and numerical questions. Also the whole business of interest and annuities, &c. perform'd by the pen, and a small table, with several new improvements. III. The elements of geometry, contracted, and analytically demonstrated; with a new and easie method of finding the circle's periphery and area to any assigned exactness, by one aequation only; also a new way of making sines and tangents. IV. Conick-sections, wherein the chief properties, &c. of the ellipsis, parabola, and hyperbola, are clearly demonstrated. V. The arithmetick of infinites explain'd, and render'd easie; with its application to superficial, and solid geometry. With an appendix of practical gauging. The second edition corrected. By John Ward, Philomath. Heretofore Chief Surveyor and Gauger-General in the Excise; now Professor of the Mathematicks in the City of Chester.
John Ward (fl.1698 - 1709)
Category
Books
Date
1713
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3230799
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 451, [3] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 8vo. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front endpaper: "Davenport Talbot" [probably William Davenport-Talbot (1764-1800)]. Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on five supports; gilt roll pattern border; blind roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine; title 'Ward's Mathematicks' lettered in gilt on spine; red and brown sprinkled textblock edges.
Provenance
Purchased with the family collection of Abbey contents in situ from Mrs Petronella Burnett-Brown December 2009.
Makers and roles
John Ward (fl.1698 - 1709), author Michael Vandergucht (Antwerp 1660 – London 1725), engraver (printmaker)