Rara Arithmetica: A Catalogue of the Arithmetics Written Before the Year MDCI with a Description of Those in the Library of George Arthur Plimpton, of New YorkGinn, 1908 - 507 páginas |
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Página 126 - unless I would, according to the proverb, " Show the sun with a lanthorn."' The Utopia was first printed in 1516, so this sonorous praise was written some years before Tonstall's arithmetic appeared
Página 236 - An introduction for to lerne to recken with the pen, or with the counters accordyng to the trewe cast of Algorisme, in hole numbers, or in broken, newly corrected. And certayne notable
Página 58 - theory of arithmetic. It treats of the various classes of numbers, such as plane and solid, and mentions the supposed mysteries of the smaller numbers, the monad suggesting one God, the dyad good and evil, the triad the Trinity, and so on.
Página 270 - there is no other treatise that gives as much information concerning the arithmetic of the sixteenth century, either as to theory or application. The life of the people, the customs of the merchants, the struggles to improve arithmetic, are all set forth
Página 107 - The book opens with a brief treatment of notation and finger symbols. Then follow in order the multiplication table, the proof of sevens, various methods of multiplication, division by the galley method, addition chiefly of denominate numbers, subtraction, the operations with fractions in the same
Página ii - the last of the Romans whom Cato or Tully could have acknowledged for their countryman.
Página 220 - to Zeuxippus are sufficient to exceed not only the number of a sand-heap as large as the whole earth, but one as large as the universe.
Página 54 - at Estaples, near Amiens, in 1455, and died at Nerac in 1536. He was a priest, vicar of the bishop of Meaux, lecturer on philosophy at the College Lemoine in Paris, and tutor to Charles, son of
Página 126 - states that in his dealing with certain goldsmiths he suspected that their accounts were incorrect, and he therefore renewed his study of arithmetic so as to check their figures. On his appointment to the See of
Página 178 - An Introduction for to lerne to reckon with the Pen and with the Counters after the true cast of Arsmetyke, or Awgrym,