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Title: [Mathematical notebook]
Creator: Martin, John
Date Created and/or Issued: 1726
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript with calligraphic flourishes and drawings. Front cover signed but faded: John Martin, Jan 31st 1726. On p. 99: "Ino. Mar'n."
Scope/Content: Manuscript cipher book, containing arithmetical calculations and word problems, all based on goods and exchanges in 18th century England. For example, prices for goods such as Virginia tobacco, wine and cloth are used in calculations and a South Sea Bond is used in an example about calculating interest. The entire text is written in an early 18th century calligraphic hand and most pages include flourishes, embellishments and drawings.
Condition: Contemporary vellum; defective spine.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Calligraphy (visual works)
Exercise books
Extent: [306] pages, bound ;21 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1cw2v
MS.1950.002
Language: English
eng
Subject: Mathematics--Problems, exercises, etc.--Early works to 1800.
Arithmetic--18th century.
Word problems (Mathematics)--18th century.
School notebooks--Specimens.
Place: England
Location: CLUW

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