Research Catalog

Title

A synopsis of practical mathematics. [electronic resource] : Containing plain trigonometry, mensuration of heights, Distances, Surfaces, and Solids; Surveying of Land, Gauging, Navigation, and Gunnery. With tables of the logarithms of numbers, and of sines and tangents. For the use of Schools and Man of Business. By Alexander Ewing, Teacher of Mathematics, Edinburgh.

Author

Ewing, Alexander, -1804.

Publication

London : printed for T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, Strand; and J. Fairbairn, at Edinburgh, M,DCC,XCIX. [1799]

Details

Description

iv,[2],328,[148]p., 4 plates; 8⁰.

Subject

• Trigonometry > Early works to 1800
• Mensuration
• Surveying > Early works to 1800
• Logarithms

Note

• The tables are unpaginated.
• With a final advertisement leaf.
• Reproduction of original from British Library.

Indexed In (note)

• English Short Title Catalog

Reproduction (note)

• Electronic reproduction.

OCLC

• 642284473
• ECCO1-T113019

Author

Ewing, Alexander, -1804.

Title

A synopsis of practical mathematics. [electronic resource] : Containing plain trigonometry, mensuration of heights, Distances, Surfaces, and Solids; Surveying of Land, Gauging, Navigation, and Gunnery. With tables of the logarithms of numbers, and of sines and tangents. For the use of Schools and Man of Business. By Alexander Ewing, Teacher of Mathematics, Edinburgh.

Imprint

London : printed for T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, Strand; and J. Fairbairn, at Edinburgh, M,DCC,XCIX. [1799]

Edition

Fourth edition.

Reproduction

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

Indexed In:

English Short Title Catalog, T113019.

Connect to:

Full text online available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Place of Publication

Great Britain England London.