The Accountant And Geometrician: Containing the Doctrine Of Circulating Decimals, Logarithms, Book-Keeping, and Plane Geometry. Designed for the Use of Schools, as well as private Gentlemen. By Benjamin Donn, Teacher of the Mathematicks, &c. late of Bideford, now of the City of Bristol.
Essay On The Doctrine And Application Of Circulating ir Infinite Decimals
Essay On The Nature, Investigation, and Application, Of Logarithms
Essay On Book-keeping by Double Entry
Essay On The Elements Of Plane Geometry
Imprint
London:: Printed for J. Johnson, opposite the Monument., M.DCC.LXV. [Price Six Shillings.]
Physical Description
[iv], iv, [viii], 68, [viii], 28, xx, 9, [1], 115, [1], xv, [i], 136 p., 8 fold. pl. 205 mm. (Quarto.)
General Note
Between pp.[132] and 133 a second copy of pages 129-[132] has been bound in.
Contents
[T.p., dedic.] - The Preface - [Text, 'An Essay On The Doctrine and Application Of Circulating or Infinite Decimals... By Benjamin Donn', with Preface dated 1759] - [Text, 'An Essay On The Nature, Investigation, and Application, Of Logarithms. By Benjamin Donn', with Preface dated 1759] - [Text, 'An Essay On Book-keeping by Double Entry ... By Benjamin Donn', with Preface dated 1759] - [Text, 'An Essay On The Elements Of Plane Geometry ... By Benjamin Donn', with Preface dated 1759, and with 8 fold. pl.] - Advertisements - An Index To The Whole Volume; Directions To The Binder.
Responsibility Note
No plate is signed.
The work is dedicated by the author, Benjamin Donn, 'To The Right Worshipful the Mayor, The Worshipful the Aldermen, The Sheriffs, And Common-Council, Of The City of Bristol, As Encouragers of useful Learning, And in grateful acknowledment of Favours received'.
References
ESTC, T96906
R.V. Wallis and P.J. Wallis, Index of British mathematicians, pt. 3 (1993)
J. Barry, The cultural life of Bristol 1640-1775 [D.Phil. dissertation, University of Oxford] (1985)
E.G.R. Taylor, The mathematical practitioners of Hanoverian England 1714-1840 (1966)
E. Robinson, 'Benjamin Donn', in Annals of science, 19 (1963), p.27-36.
Summary Note
The plates are all geometric figures illustrating 'An Essay On The Elements Of Plane Geometry'.
The page of 'Advertisements', p. [132], comprises advertisements for four books by various authors and publishers, the first being the second edition of Donn's 'Mathematical Essays'. These 'Advertisements' are not a separate insert but are printed on the verso of page 131 of 'An Essay On The Elements Of Plane Geometry'.
Reproductions
An electronic reproduction was published in 2003 (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale). A microfilm version was published in 1983 (Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications).
Provenance
Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
Binding Note
18th-century polished calf, gilt-decorated spine, red and black morocco spine-labels lettered 'Donn's Mathematic Essays' and 'Vol II'.
Subject
Mathematics - Decimals - Logarithms - Geometry - Bookkeeping - Accounting
Manuals - Great Britain - 18th century
Pictorial works - 18th century