The Compleat Cook eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 95 pages of information about The Compleat Cook.

The Compleat Cook eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 95 pages of information about The Compleat Cook.

Excellent Treatises in the Mathematicks, Geometry of Arithmetick, Surveying, and other Arts or Mechannicks.

46.  The incomparable Treatise of Tactometria, sev.  Tetagmenometria; or, the Geometry of Regulars, practically proposed, after a new and most expeditious manner, (together with the Natural or Vulgar, by way of Mensural comparison) and in the Solids, not only in respect of Magnitude or Demension, but also of Gravity or Ponderosity, according to any Metall assigned:  together with useful experiments of Measures & Weights, observations on Gauging, useful for those are practised in the Art Metricald:  by T.  Wibard.

47. Tectonicon, shewing the exact measuring of all manner of Land, Squares, Timber Stone, Steeples, Pillars, Globes; as also the making and use of the Carpenters Rule &c. fit to be known by all Surveyors, Land-meters, Joyners, Carpenters, and Masons:  by L.  Digges.

48.  The unparalleld work for ease & expedition, instituted, The exact Surveyor:  or, the whole Art of Surveying of Land, shewing how to plot all manner of Grounds, whether small Inclosures, Champain, Plain, Wood-Lands, or Mountains, by the Plain Table; as also how to finde the Area, or Content of any Land, to Protect, Reduce or Divide the same; as also to take the Plot or Cart, to make a map of any Manner, whether according to Rathburne, or any other Eminent Surveyors Method:  a Booke excellently useful for those that sell, purchase, or are otherwise employed about Buildings; by J.  Eyre.

49. Moor’s Arithmetick:  discovering the secrets of that Art, in Number and Species; in two Books, the first teaching by precept and example, the Operations in numbers, whole and broken.  The Rules of Practice, Interest, and performed in the more facil manner by Decimals, then hitherto hath been published; the excellency and new practice and use of Logarithmes, Nepayres Bones.  The second the great Rule of Algebra, in Species, resolving all Arithmetical Questions by Supposition.

50.  The golden Treatise of Arithmetick, Natural and Artificial, or Decimals; the Theory & Practice united in a simpathetical Proportion, betwixt lines and Numbers, in their Quantities and Qualities, as in respect of Form, Figure, Magnitude and Affection; demonstrated by Geometry, illustrated by Calculations, and confirmed with variety of Examples in every Species; made compendious and easie for Merchants, Citizens, Sea-men, Accomptants, &c. by Th.  Wilsford Corrector of the last Edition of Record.

51.  Semigraphy, or the Art of Short-Writing, as it hath been proved by many hundreds in the City of London, and other places, by them practised, and acknowledged to be the easiest, exactest, and swiftest method; the meanest capacity by the help of this Book, with a few hours practice, may attaine to a perfection in this Art:  by Jer.  Rich Author and Teacher thereof, dwelling in Swithings Lane in London.

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