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Book Holding: Select Exercises for Young Proficients in the Mathematicks. Containing, I. A large Variety of Algebraical Problems with their Solutions. II. A choice Number of Geometrical Problems with their Solutions both Algebraical and Qeometrical. III. The Theory of Gunnery, independent of the Conic Sections. IV. A new and very comprehensive Method for finding the Roots of Equations in Numbers. V. A short Account of the Nature and first Principles of Fluxions. VI. The Valuation of Annuities for single and joint Lives, with a Set of new Tables, far more extensive than any extant. By Thomas Simpson, F.R.S.

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Select Exercises for Young Proficients in the Mathematicks. Containing, I. A large Variety of Algebraical Problems with their Solutions. II. A choice Number of Geometrical Problems with their Solutions both Algebraical and Qeometrical. III. The Theory of Gunnery, independent of the Conic Sections. IV. A new and very comprehensive Method for finding the Roots of Equations in Numbers. V. A short Account of the Nature and first Principles of Fluxions. VI. The Valuation of Annuities for single and joint Lives, with a Set of new Tables, far more extensive than any extant. By Thomas Simpson, F.R.S.

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Record ID 298510

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1788-1791. (UYLY207-9) (1788-1791, Type: Student). Page: 16

Simson's  Exercises

Borrowed: 1789/8/5 (Wednesday). Returned: 1789/8/19 (Wednesday). Classmark: E. 6.17. Original Returned Text: Simson's Exercises.


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John Beattie
Gender: Male.
St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1366082556.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


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Thomas Simpson (Male, born 1710, died 1761)
Genre: Education, Genre: Mathematics
Select Exercises for Young Proficients in the Mathematicks. Containing, I. A large Variety of Algebraical Problems with their Solutions. II. A choice Number of Geometrical Problems with their Solutions both Algebraical and Qeometrical. III. The Theory of Gunnery, independent of the Conic Sections. IV. A new and very comprehensive Method for finding the Roots of Equations in Numbers. V. A short Account of the Nature and first Principles of Fluxions. VI. The Valuation of Annuities for single and joint Lives, with a Set of new Tables, far more extensive than any extant. By Thomas Simpson, F.R.S.
Classmark: E.6.17.

Record ID 305614

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1788-1791. (UYLY207-9) (1788-1791, Type: Student). Page: 42

Simson's Select Exercises

Borrowed: 1790/1/16 (Saturday). Returned: 1790/1/16 (Saturday). Classmark: E 6.17. Original Returned Text: Simpsons Select Exer ;.


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William Smith
Gender: Male.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


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Thomas Simpson (Male, born 1710, died 1761)
Genre: Education, Genre: Mathematics
Select Exercises for Young Proficients in the Mathematicks. Containing, I. A large Variety of Algebraical Problems with their Solutions. II. A choice Number of Geometrical Problems with their Solutions both Algebraical and Qeometrical. III. The Theory of Gunnery, independent of the Conic Sections. IV. A new and very comprehensive Method for finding the Roots of Equations in Numbers. V. A short Account of the Nature and first Principles of Fluxions. VI. The Valuation of Annuities for single and joint Lives, with a Set of new Tables, far more extensive than any extant. By Thomas Simpson, F.R.S.
Classmark: E.6.17.

Record ID 320581

Library: St Andrews University Library. Register: Library Receipt Book 1788-1791. (UYLY207-9) (1788-1791, Type: Student). Page: 84

Simpson's Select Exercises

Borrowed: 1788/12/12 (Friday). Returned: 1788/12/12 (Friday). Classmark: E.6.17. Original Returned Text: Simpsons Select Exercises.


Borrower

James Brown
Gender: Male.
Life dates: 1763-1836. St Andrews Biographical Register, 1747-1897: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/biographical-register/data/documents/1369131068.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.


Book HoldingLibrary record

Thomas Simpson (Male, born 1710, died 1761)
Genre: Education, Genre: Mathematics
Select Exercises for Young Proficients in the Mathematicks. Containing, I. A large Variety of Algebraical Problems with their Solutions. II. A choice Number of Geometrical Problems with their Solutions both Algebraical and Qeometrical. III. The Theory of Gunnery, independent of the Conic Sections. IV. A new and very comprehensive Method for finding the Roots of Equations in Numbers. V. A short Account of the Nature and first Principles of Fluxions. VI. The Valuation of Annuities for single and joint Lives, with a Set of new Tables, far more extensive than any extant. By Thomas Simpson, F.R.S.
Classmark: E.6.17.