hundred; on every Fifty, from two thousand five hundred to three thousand; and on every Five Hundred, from three thousand
to five thousand; from one, to sixty-four Days, inclusive, also for every Month, from one to twelve, and for eighteen Months,
and two Years; besides a complete Cent Table: the whole computed at six per cent, and comprising upwards of one hundred and
fifty-six thousand nine hundred Calculations of interest; all performed according to the Equitable Principles of the Banks,
and as practised between Individuals throughout the United States; together with Examples contained in the Introduction, shewing
in what Manner (by means of the Tables) to ascertain the Interest, at five, seven, and at eight per cent. Likewise a Note
under the first Page of the Work, explaining the usual Mode of computing Interest on cents, and the ready Way to use the Tables,
for any number of Days exceeding sixty-four, &c. By John Rowlett, late Accountant, Bank of North America.
Philadelphia: printed for the Proprietor, by
Hugh Maxwell, Anno Domini
1802. And the twenty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States. Copy-right secured according to law.
HG1628 .R8 1802
First Edition. 4to. 100 leaves collating in twos, parchment thumb pieces, list of subscribers on 8 leaves at the end.
Sabin 73597.
Karpinski, page 147.
The first two subscribers on the list are John Adams, President of the United States, and Thomas Jefferson, Vice-President
of the United States, and President of the Senate. A footnote draws attention to the fact that Jefferson was now President
of the United States, and that since March 1800 much alteration in the list has taken place in consequence of new elections,
resignations and deaths.
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Tracts in Arithmetic. viz.
The Arenarius of Archimedes.....................................
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Clavius on the possibility of numbering the sands.
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8
vo.
Testament de Fortuné Ricard.....................................
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1815 Catalogue, page 110, no. 25, as above, reading
Richard.
Two tracts originally bound together for Jefferson in one volume, 8vo.; there is no longer a copy of the second in the Library
of Congress.
1. ARCHIMEDES.
The Arenarius of Archimedes, translated from the
Greek, with Notes and Illustrations. To which is added, the Dissertation of Christopher Clavius on the same Subject, from the
Latin . . .
London: printed for
J. Johnson, and Mess.
Prince and Cooke,
Oxford,
m dcc lxxxiv.
[1784.]
QA31 .A71
First Edition. 8vo. 42 leaves including the half-title and the half-title for
The Dissertation of Christopher Clavius, folded plate; the Preface signed G. Anderson and dated Wadham College, Oxford, 1784.
Archimedes, c. 287-212 B.C., Greek mathematician and inventor.
George Anderson, 1760-1796, English mathematician, published this work the year of his graduation from Oxford. Later he became accountant-general
to the Board of Control.
Christophorus Clavius [Clau], 1538-1612, German Jesuit, was born in Bamberg. He became known as the Euclid of the sixteenth century, and was employed
by Gregory XIII to reform the calendar.
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