Humphrey Baker, The Wellspring of Sciences, which Teacheth the Perfect Work and Practice of Arithmetic (1574)
Date
1574
Author
Humphrey
Baker
Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
The Well springe of Sciences, which teacheth the perfect worke and practise of Arithmeticke, bothe in whole Numbres and Fractions, set forthe by Hvmfrey Baker, Londoner, 1562. And nowe once agayne perused augmented and amended in all the three partes, by the sayde Aucthour, whereunto hee hathe also added certaine Tables of the agreement of measures, and waightes, of diuers places in Europe, the one with the other, as by the Table folowing it may appeare
Publication place
London
Printer
Thomas Purfoote
Transcription source
EEBO
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
mathematics
Summary
"The diffinition of number" (b1r), including definitions of numeration, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, etc.
Word-group
type: topical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: Nvmber is as much to say as a multitude composed of many vnities, as two is composed of two vnities, three s composed of three vnities, foure of foure vnities, fiue of fiue vnities, ten or ten, fourtene or fourtene, fiftene of fifteene, twenty of twenty vnities, &c. (b1r)
sample: Nvmber is as much to say as a multitude composed of many vnities, as two is composed of two vnities, three s composed of three vnities, foure of foure vnities, fiue of fiue vnities, ten or ten, fourtene or fourtene, fiftene of fifteene, twenty of twenty vnities, &c. (b1r)
STC
1210a
Other editions
1646: B 493A;
1650: B 494
1650: B 494
