Arithmetical Rules And Tables

Hawkins,, N. HAND BOOK OF CALCULATIONS FOR ENGINEERS AND FIREMEN RELATING TO THE STEAM ENGINE, THE STEAM BOILER, PUMPS. SHAFTING, ETC. New York: Theodore Audel & Co. 1901

First Edition. Hardcover, NEAR FINE,no dj,. Out of Print, Spine Lettering & All Page Edges Are Gilt, 'A Bright Copy'; 330 pages; Comprising The Elements Of Mechanical Philosophy, Mensuration, Geometry , Algebra, Arithmetical Signs, And Tables. United States Weights, Measures And Money; Tables Of Wages, With Copious Notes, Explanations And Help Rules Useful For An Engineer. And For Reference, Tables Of Squares And Cube Roots, Circumference And Areas Of Circles, Tables Of Weights And Pipes, Tables Of Pressures Of Steam, Etc. Etc. Etc. Illustrated by Diagrams.

[SW: MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHY, MENSURATION, GEOMETRY, ALGEBRA, ARITHMETICAL SIGNS, TABLES, WEIGHTS, MEASURES, HANDBOOK, REFERENCE REFERENCE/INSTRUCTIONAL/EDUCATIONAL]

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[Godfridus]: The Knowledge of Things Unknown:
Shewing the Effects of the Planets and other Astronomical Constellations. With the Strange Events that befall Men, Women and Children, born under them. Together with the Husbandman's Practice: Or, Prognostication for ever, as teach Albert, Alkind, and Ptolomy. With the Shepherd's Prognostication for the Weather, and Pythagoras his Wheel of Fortune. Printed for the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1729.
ESTC T 65502 (BL (2 copies) and UCLA only). See Bernard Capp, 'Astrology and the Popular Press' (London 1979), 31.

12mo., pp. [8] 9-154. With woodcut frontispiece of an astronomer, woodcut depiction on title-page of Ptolemy, 7 woodcut illustrations in text, arithmetical tables, occasional woodcut headpieces or initials. Two neat repairs to reverse (blank) side of frontispiece (invisible on image-side), browning and foxing, the odd minor stain, margins sometimes cut close, a good copy, bound in recent tan calf gilt. All edges red. Work in an ephemeral literary category of "perpetual prognostications offering advice and rules of divination" (Capp), popular throughout the Renaissance, with guidance on astrology, health and the weather, as well as useful information such as templates for business letters and tables of interest. On the 15th day of the Moon, the manual advises, "Do no Work, begin no Work, for it is a grievous Day. A sick Man shall long travail, but he shall escape: A Dream that thou seest, nothing shall annoy, but come to good Event: A Child born shall die young; that is lost shall be found. To let Blood is good" (p. 15).

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Engineering Hawkins ME, N: Hand Book of Calculations for Engineers and Firemen, Theo Audel & Co, NY, 1901 ; 1. Ed.
Condition: VG. Binding watermarked. Spine loose. Orig owner name stamped inside front cover. Contents in excellent condition. Book Size 8vo.

Relating to the Steam Engine, the Steam Boiler, Pumps, Shafting, Etc. Comprising the elements of mechanical philosophy, mensuration, geometry, algebra, arithmetical signs, and tables. United States weights, measures and money; Tables of wages, with copious notes, explanations and help rules useful for an Engineer. And for reference, tables of squares and cubes, square and cube roots, circumference and areas of circles, tables of weights of metals and pipes, tables of pressures of steam, etc., etc., etc. 330 Pgs. Description text copyright 2000 www.BooksForComfort.com. Item ID 679.; 1st Ed

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Winslow, E. S. Winslow's Comprehensive Mathematics, Boston Self Published 1867
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Being an extensive cabinet of numerical, arithmetical, and mathematical facts, tables, data, formulas, and practical rules for the general business-man, merchant, mechanic, accountant, teachers of schools, geometricians, and scientists, appropriately arranged and applied. sixth edition, enlarged and improved. ; leather boards cracked at the spine; inscribed by prev. owner on ffep, dated 1864. small piece missing from spine covering; black and gilt tabel on the spine. pages are tight, clean, 374 pages; slight insect damage consists of some holes in margin on a few back pages. Very rare self-published math book. No Jacket Leather 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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