John Collins
Died 1683-01-01
Identifiers
- VIAF57417862
- WikidataQ1279339
- ISNI0000000081370804
- Open LibraryOL4768822A
Top Subjects
- Early works to 1800 (8)
- Dialing (4)
- Calculus (4)
- Astronomy (3)
- Quadrants (Astronomical instruments) (3)
- Law merchant (2)
- Salt (2)
Books by John Collins
Total count: 29
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An introduction to merchants accountscontaining five distinct questions or accounts ...Printed by James Flesher for Nicholas Bourn ...1653-01-01
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Consuetudo; vel, Lex Mercatoria; or, The ancient law-merchant, divided into three parts, according to the essentiall parts of trafficke ... also, Advice concerning bils of exchange, wherein the whole practicall part and body of exchange of money is anatomized, by Iohn Marius ... together with A collection of all sea-laws, which are to be found among any people or nation upon the coasts of the great ocean and Mediterranean sea, composed long since by a Professor of the civil law; whereunto is annexed, The merchants mirrour or, Directions for the perfect ordering and keeping of his accounts, framed by way of debitor and creditor ... compiled by Richard Dafforne ...Bounre1656-01-01
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Consuetudo vel lex mercatoria, or, The ancient law-merchantdivided into three parts ...Printed by William Hunt for Nicolas Bourne ...1656-01-01
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The description and uses of a general quadrantwith the horizontal projection, upon it inverted1658-01-01
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The sector on a quadrant, or, A treatise containing the description and use of three several quadrantseach rendered many ways both general and particular. Accommodated for dyalling, for the resolving of all proportions instrumentally, and for the ready finding the hour and azimuth universally, in the equal limb. Of great use to seamen, and practioners in the mathematiquesTo be sold by George Hurlock book-seller at Magnus corner, by William Fisher at the Postern near Tower-hill, and by Henry Sutton mathematical instrument maker, at his house in Thredneedle street behind the Exchange.1658-01-01
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The sector on a quadrant, or, A treatise containing the description and use of four several quadrants, two small ones and two great ones, each rendred many wayes, both general and particulareach of them accomodated for dyalling, for the resolving of all proportions instrumentally, and for the ready finding the hour and azimuth universally in the equal limbe : of great use to seamen and practitioners in the mathematicksPrinted by J.M. for George Hurlock ... Thomas Pierrepont ... William Fisher ... and Henry Sutton ... with paper prints of each quadrant, either loose or pasted upon boards, to be sold at the respective places aforesaid1659-01-01
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A plea for the bringing in of Irish cattel, and keeping out of fish caught by foreignerstogether with an humble address to the honourable members of Parliament of the counties of Cornwal and Devon, about the advancement of tin, fishery, and divers manufacturesPrinted by A. Godbid and J. Playford, and are sold by Langley Curtis ...1680-01-01
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Salt and fisherya discourse thereof, insisting on the following heads ...Printed by A. Godbid and J. Playford, and are to be sold by Mr. Robert Horne ... [and two others1682-01-01
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Salt and fisherya discourse thereof insisting on the following heads, 1. The several ways of making salt in England, & foreign parts. 2. The character & qualities good & bad, of these several sorts of salt, English refined asserted to be much better than any foreign. 3. The catching and curing, or salting of the most eminent or staple sorts of fish, for long or short keeping. 4. The salting of flesh. 5. The cookery of fish and flesh. 6. Extraordinary experiments in preserving butter, flesh, fish, fowl, fruit, & roots, fresh & sweet for long keeping. 7. The case & sufferings of the saltworkers. 8. Proposals for their relief, and for the advancement of the fishery, the woollen, tin, & divers other manufacturesPrinted by A. Godbid and J. Playford1682-01-01
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Consuetudo; vel, Lex mercatoria; or, the ancient law-merchant, in three parts, according to the essentials of traffick ... whereunto are annexed the following tracts, viz. I. The collection of sea laws. II. Advice concerning bills of exchange, by John Marius ... III. The merchants mirrour; or, Directions for the perfect ordering or keeping of his accounts ... by R. Dafforne ... IV. An introduction to merchants accounts, by John Collins ... V. The accountants closet, being an abridgment of merchants accounts, kept by debtor and creditor, by Abraham Liset3d ed. ...Basset1686-01-01
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Collins's arithmetick, in whole numbers and fracti[ons], both vulgar and deci[mal]with tables for the forebe[arance and] rebate of money, the summi[ng up] of annuities, and the purch[ase] of leases at compound interestPrinted for Benjamin Crayle ...1688-01-01
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Collins's Arithmetickin whole numb[ers] and fraction[s] both vulgar and deci[...] With tables for the forb[...] rebate of money, the summi[...] of annuities, and the purch[ase] of leases at compound interestPrinted for Benjamin Crayle ...1688-01-01
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The country-survey-book, or, Land-meter's vade-mecumwherein the principles and ... rules for surveying of land are ... plainly ... deliver'd ... : with an appendix containing twelve problems touching compound-interest and annuities ...The eighth edition.Printed by Hugh Meere for George Sawbridge ...1711-01-01
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Commercium epistolicum Johannis Collins, et aliorum de analysi promotaEx Officinâ J. Tonson & J. Watts1722-01-01
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Commercium epistolicum D. Johannis Collinset aliorum, de analysi promota, jussu Societatis Regiæin lucem editum: et jam unà cum ejusdem recensione præmissa, & judicio primarii, ut ferebatur, mathematice subjuncto, iterum impressum.Mack-Euen1722-01-01
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Commercium epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum, de analysi promotajussu Societatis Regiae in lucem editum : et jam unà cum ejusdem recensione praemissa, & judicio primarii, ut ferebatur, mathematici subjuncto, iterum impressum.Ex officinâ J. Tonson, & J. Watts1722-01-01
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Commercium epistolicumD. Johannis Collins, et aliorum, de analysi promota, jussu Societatis Regiæ in lucem editum: ...ex officinâ & impensis J. Tonson, & J. Watts, prostant venates apud Jacobum Mack-Euen, Edinburgensem1722-01-01
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The description and use of four several quadrants, two great ones, and two small onesWith the use of a diagonal-scale and semi-circle ...T. Page, W. and F. Mount1723-01-01
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Commercium epistolicum de varia re mathematica, inter celeberrimos praesentis seculi mathematicosImpensis J. Tonson & J.Watts, prostant venales apud J. Mac-Euen1725-01-01
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The description and use of four several quadrantstwo great ones, and two small ones. ... Invented and written by ... John Collins, and engrav'd by the curious hand of Mr. Henry Sutton; with additions, not in the former treatise, by John Good.printed for W. and J. Mount and T. Page1750-01-01
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Commercium epistolicum J. Collins et aliorum de analysi promota, etc., ou, Correspondance de J. Collins et d'autres savants célèbres du XVIIe siècle, relative à l'analyse supérieureMallet-Bachelier1856-01-01
Commercium epistolicum J. Collins et aliorum de analysi promota, etcou, Correspondance de J. Collins et d'autres savants célèbres du XVIIe siècle, relative à l'analyse supérieure, réimprimée sur l'édition originale de 1712 avec l'indication des variantes de l'édition de 1722, complétée par une collection de pièces justificatives et de documents, et publiée par J.-B. Bbiot et F. LefortMallet-Bachelier1856-01-01-
James GregoryTercentenary memorial volume, containing his correspondence with John Collins and his hitherto unpublished mathematical manuscripts, together with addresses and essays communicated to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, July 4, 1938Pub. for the Royal Society of Edinburgh by G. Bell & Sons, ltd.1939-01-01
The sector on a quadrant, or, a treatise containing the description and use of four several quadrants; two small ones and two great ones, each rendred many wayes, both general and particular. Each of them accomodated for dyalling; for the resolving of all proportions instrumentally; and for the ready finding the hour and azimuth universally in the equal limbe. Of great use to seamen and practioners in the mathematicksPrinted by J.M. for George Hurlock ... Thomas Pierrepont ... William Fisher ... and Henry Sutton ...-
The sector on a quadrantor A treatise containing the description and use of four several quadrants : two small ones and two great ones, each rendred many wayes, both general and particular : each of them accomodated for dyalling, for the resolving of all proportions instrumentally, and for the ready finding the hour and azimuth universally in the equal limbe : of great use to seamen and practioners in the mathematicksprinted by J. M. for George Hurlock... Thomas Pierrepont... William Fisher... and Henry Sutton
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Exchanges ready computed: viz. sterling money to Flemish: and Flemish money to sterlings.n.
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Geometricall dyalling: or, Dyalling performed by a line of chords onely, or by the plain scale ...Being a full explication and demonstration of divers difficulties in the works of learned Mr. Samuel Foster ... also a collection of divers things from the works of Clavius and others ...Printed by Thomas Johnson for Francis Cossinet
The sector on a quadrant, or, a treatise containing the description and use of four several quadrants; two small ones and two great ones, each rendred many wayes, both general and particular. Each of them accomodated for dyalling; for the resolving of all proportions instrumentally; and for the ready finding the hour and azimuth universally in the equal limbe. Of great use to seamen and practioners in the mathematicksPrinted by J.M. for George Hurlock ... Thomas Pierrepont ... William Fisher ... and Henry Sutton ...-
A method for finding the number of the Julian period for any year assign'dthe number of the cycle of the sun, the cycle of the moon, and of the indications, for the same year, being given: together with the demonstration of that method.Printed by T.N. for J. Martyn