Pleasure with profit: :
consisting of recreations of divers kinds, viz. numerical, geometrical, mechanical, statical, astronomical, horometrical, cryptographical, magnetical, automatical, chymical, and historical. Published to recreate ingenious spirits; and to induce them to make farther scrutiny intor these (and the like) sublime sciences. And to divert them from following such vices, to which (in this age) are so much inclin'd. /
By William Leybourn. To this work is also annext, A treatise of algebra, according to the late improvements, applied to numerical questions and geometry; with a new series for the speedy extraction of roots; as also a coverging series for all manner of adfected equations. By R. Sault.

Description

Main Author

Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.

Related Names

Marchmont, Alexander Hume-Campbell, 1675-1740, former owner.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733, bookseller.
Baldwin, Richard, -1698, bookseller.
Sault, Richard, -1702.

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Printed for Richard Baldwin and John Dunton, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, and at the Raven in the Poultrey, 1694.

Subjects

Algebra > Algebra / Early works to 1800.
Scientific recreations > Scientific recreations / Early works to 1800.

Note

Signatures: A⁶ ²A⁴ B-G⁴; A-H⁴ I²; A-D⁴; A-C⁴; A-H⁴; A-M⁴ N1; A-O².
"A new treatise of algera, according to the late improvements" has divisional half-t.p., separate pagination and signatures.
Bookseller's advertisements: preliminary page [4].
Initials.
Title within double-rule border.
Each of the twelve sections has separate pagination; the first 5 sections have separate signatures, the last 7 sections are signed continously.

Physical Description

[2], vi, [4], [402] p., [2] folded leaves of plates ; ill. ; 32 cm.

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