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| 041 | 0 | # | $a eng |
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| 100 | 1 | # | $a Donn |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | $a The Accountant And Geometrician: Containing the Doctrine Of Circulating Decimals, Logarithms, Book-Keeping, and Plane Geometry. $b Designed for the Use of Schools, as well as private Gentlemen. By Benjamin Donn, Teacher of the Mathematicks, &c. late of Bideford, now of the City of Bristol. |
| 246 | 3 | # | $a Essay On The Doctrine And Application Of Circulating ir Infinite Decimals |
| 246 | 3 | # | $a Essay On The Nature, Investigation, and Application, Of Logarithms |
| 246 | 3 | # | $a Essay On Book-keeping by Double Entry |
| 246 | 3 | # | $a Essay On The Elements Of Plane Geometry |
| 260 | # | # | $a London: $b Printed for J. Johnson, opposite the Monument. $c M.DCC.LXV. [Price Six Shillings.] $c [1765] |
| 300 | # | # | $a [iv], iv, [viii], 68, [viii], 28, xx, 9, [1], 115, [1], xv, [i], 136 p., 8 fold. pl. $c 205 mm. (Quarto.) |
| 500 | # | # | $a Between pp.[132] and 133 a second copy of pages 129-[132] has been bound in. |
| 505 | 0 | # | $a [T.p., dedic.] - The Preface - [Text, 'An Essay On The Doctrine and Application Of Circulating or Infinite Decimals... By Benjamin Donn', with Preface dated 1759] - [Text, 'An Essay On The Nature, Investigation, and Application, Of Logarithms. By Benjamin Donn', with Preface dated 1759] - [Text, 'An Essay On Book-keeping by Double Entry ... By Benjamin Donn', with Preface dated 1759] - [Text, 'An Essay On The Elements Of Plane Geometry ... By Benjamin Donn', with Preface dated 1759, and with 8 fold. pl.] - Advertisements - An Index To The Whole Volume; Directions To The Binder. |
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$a No plate is signed. The work is dedicated by the author, Benjamin Donn, 'To The Right Worshipful the Mayor, The Worshipful the Aldermen, The Sheriffs, And Common-Council, Of The City of Bristol, As Encouragers of useful Learning, And in grateful acknowledment of Favours received'. |
| 510 | 4 | # | $a ESTC $c T96906 |
| 510 | 3 | # | $a R.V. Wallis and P.J. Wallis, Index of British mathematicians, pt. 3 (1993) |
| 510 | 3 | # | $a J. Barry, The cultural life of Bristol 1640-1775 [D.Phil. dissertation, University of Oxford] (1985) |
| 510 | 3 | # | $a E.G.R. Taylor, The mathematical practitioners of Hanoverian England 1714-1840 (1966) |
| 510 | 4 | # | $a E. Robinson, 'Benjamin Donn', in Annals of science, 19 (1963), p.27-36. |
| 520 | 2 | # |
$a The plates are all geometric figures illustrating 'An Essay On The Elements Of Plane Geometry'. The page of 'Advertisements', p. [132], comprises advertisements for four books by various authors and publishers, the first being the second edition of Donn's 'Mathematical Essays'. These 'Advertisements' are not a separate insert but are printed on the verso of page 131 of 'An Essay On The Elements Of Plane Geometry'. |
| 533 | # | # | $n An electronic reproduction was published in 2003 (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale). A microfilm version was published in 1983 (Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications). |
| 561 | # | # | $a Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802. |
| 563 | # | # | $a 18th-century polished calf, gilt-decorated spine, red and black morocco spine-labels lettered 'Donn's Mathematic Essays' and 'Vol II'. |
| 653 | # | # | $a Mathematics - Decimals - Logarithms - Geometry - Bookkeeping - Accounting |
| 655 | # | 0 | $a Manuals - Great Britain - 18th century |
| 655 | # | 0 | $a Pictorial works - 18th century |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Johnson, Joseph $e publisher |
| 710 | 1 | # | $a Bristol (City). Council $e dedicatee |
| 852 | 8 | # | $d 1802: D-2-02. |