C 05: A synopsis of practical mathematics ..., 1779, belonging to Sir Thomas Mitchell

C 5

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1779

1114993

Partly Digitised : Title page and inscribed pages only

1 volume - printed, with manuscript inscriptions - 19 x 13 cm.

A synopsis of practical mathematics : Containing plain trigonometry, mensuration of heights, distances, surfaces, and solids; surveying of land, gauging, navigation, and gunnery. With tables of the logarithms of numbers, and of sines and tangents. For the use of schools and men of business / By Alexander Ewing, teacher of mathematics in Edinburgh. Edinburgh : Printed for T. Cadell, London, and C. Elliot, Edinburgh, 1779.

Inscribed on front flyleaf verso: "Thomas Mitchellus in Academia Edinensis Anno MDCCCVI"

Title page inscribed "Thomas Mitchell's / 30 August 1806 years / Edinburgh"

Out of copyright: Published before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Also catalogued in the printed books catalogue as part of the David Scott Mitchell Collection (Bib Util 40433256).

Inscription "Thomas Mitchellus in Academia Edinensis Anno MDCCCVI" is discussed in Foster, William C. Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell and his world, 1792-1855 : surveyor general of New South Wales, 1828-1855 (Sydney : Institution of Surveyors N.S.W., 1985), p. 7