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1. Mellificium mensionis, or, The marrow of measuring : wherein a new and ready way is shewn how to measure glazing, painting, plastering, masonry, joyners, carpenters and brick-layers works : as also the measuring of land, and all other superficies and solids, by vulgar arithmetick, without reducing the integers into the least denomination, giving the content of any superficies or solid, consisting of feet, inches, and parts of inches, in a fourth part of the time and labour required by the usal way in vulgar arithmetick : together with some choice principles and problems of geometry conducing thereto : the whole treatise being comprized in six books, and illustrated with copper cuts : an account whereof is given in the epistle to the reader; the like not heretofore published

Creator:: Mandey, Venterus (author); Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 (author)
Contributor:: Howkins, Thomas (publisher)
Date:: 1685
Language:: English
Publisher:: Printed for Thomas Howkins ..
Physical Location:: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, 510 M315

2. Hobbs's Tripos, in three discourses : the first, Humane nature, or the fundamental elements of policy, being a discovery of the faculties, acts and passions of the soul of man, from their original causes, according to such philosophical principles as are not commonly known, or asserted; the second, De corpore politico, or the elements of law, moral and politick, with discourses upon several heads, as of the law of nature, oaths and covenants; several kinds of governments, with the changes and revolutions of them; the third, Of liberty and necessity, wherein all controversie, concerning predestination, election, free-will, grace, merits, reprobation, is fully decided and cleared

Creator:: Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 (author)
Contributor:: Gilliflower, Matthew (bookseller); Rogers, Henry, active 1648 (bookseller); Fox, Thomas, active 1678-1692 (bookseller); Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676 (dedicatee); Howey, Ralph T., active 20th century (bookseller)
Date:: 1684
Language:: English
Publisher:: Printed for Matt. Gilliflower, Henry Rogers, booksellers in Westminster Hall, and Tho. Fox next the Fleece Tavern in Fleetstreet, and at the Angel in Westminster-Hall
Physical Location:: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, B1231 .A3 1684