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Rule of Proportion, c 1710 - c 1749

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/5/22
Rule of Proportion
Rule of Proportion

Scope and Contents

This is possibly part of the MS referred to in Ward's "The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College": "These, which follow, are in the hands of Mr Jones. 1... 2... 3. And English treatise of common arithmetic, folio. In this are contained not only the vulgar rules, but also the manner of extracting the square and cube roots, with the rules of proportion, allegation, arithmetical and geometrical progression."

Dates

  • Creation: c 1710 - c 1749

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/macclesfield/1

Extent

107 folio(s) (ff.107 [mixed] paper) : paper

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

V.7.4

Bibliography

Mentioned in Ward, "The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College," pp.???

General

Former reference 11.26

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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