Socius mercatoris: or The merchant's companion
in three parts. The first, being a plain and easie introduction to arithmetick, vulgur and decimal, the extraction of the square and cube roots, with a table of 200 square roots, and their use in the resolution of square equations. The second, a treatise of simple and compound interest and rebate, with two tables for the calculation of the value of leases or annuities, payable quarterly, the one for simple, the other compound interest, at 6 per cent. per annum, with rules for making the like for any other rate. The third, a new and exact way of measuring solids in the form of a prismoid and cylindroid, with the frustums of pyramids and of a cone: whereunto is added, some practical rules and examples for cask-gauging. By John Mayne, philo-accomptant
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Author
Publication
printed by W[illiam] G[odbid] for N. Crouch, in Exchange-Alley, over against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
51,500 words, Guess
Page Count
206 pages
Physical Format
Microform
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL15414213M
Alternate Titles
- Socius mercatoris
- Merchant's companion
- Short treatise of simple & compound interest
- Stereometry
Subjects
Topics
Genres
- Tables
- Early works to 1800
Series Statement
- Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 1764:5
Other Editions
- Socius mercatoris: or The merchant's companion: in three parts. The first, being a plain and easie introduction to arithmetick, vulgur and decimal, the extraction of the square and cube roots, with a table of 200 square roots, and their use in the resolution of square equations. The second, a treatise of simple and compound interest and rebate, with two tables for the calculation of the value of leases or annuities, payable quarterly, the one for simple, the other compound interest, at 6 per cent. per annum, with rules for making the like for any other rate. The third, a new and exact way of measuring solids in the form of a prismoid and cylindroid, with the frustums of pyramids and of a cone: whereunto is added, some practical rules and examples for cask-gauging. By John Mayne, philo-accomptant
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