A treatise of algebra, in three parts. Containing I. The fundamental rules and operations. II. The composition and resolution of equations of all degrees; and the different affections of their roots. III. The application of algebra and geometry to each other. To which is added an appendix, concerning the general properties of geometrical lines. By Colin Maclaurin, M. A. late Professor of Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh, and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Colin MacLaurin (1698-1746)
Category
Books
Date
1748
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3230820
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiv, 366, [2], 65, [1] p., XII folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Leather spine label from different book inserted (as a bookmark?) between pp. 338-339, lettered 'Letronne'. Binding: nineteenth-century half-bound calf with marbled paper over boards; gold-tooled spine; gilt title 'Maclaurin's Algebra' on brown leather label on spine; brown sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Colin MacLaurin (1698-1746), author