Edmund Stone, A New Mathematical Dictionary (1726)
Date
1726
Lexicographer
Book title
A New Mathematical Dictionary: Wherein is contain'd, not only the Explanation Of The Bare Terms, But likewise an History, Of The Rise, Progress, State, Properties, &c. Of Things, Both in Pure Mathematicks, And Natural Philosophy, So far as it comes Under a Mathematical Consideration.
Publication place
London
Publisher
J. Senex, W. and J. Innys, J. Osborn, T. Longman, and T. Woodward
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
mathematics
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: INTEREST, is the Sum reckoned for the Lot or Forbearance of some principal Sum lent for (or due at) a certain Time, according to some certain Rate; and therefore is called Principal, because it is the Sum that procreates the Interest, or from which the Interest is reckoned, and is either Simple or Compound.
sample: INTEREST, is the Sum reckoned for the Lot or Forbearance of some principal Sum lent for (or due at) a certain Time, according to some certain Rate; and therefore is called Principal, because it is the Sum that procreates the Interest, or from which the Interest is reckoned, and is either Simple or Compound.
STC
T110417
Catalog
Tonelli, Giorgio, Eugenio Canone, and Margherita Margherita . A Short-title List of Subject Dictionaries of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 2006.
no. 171
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Other editions
1743 (ESTC T109457; 2nd edn.)
