An Introduction to the Mathematics containing Short Treatises (From the most approved Writers) ... to these is added, a Specimen of Italian Bookkeeping. Collected by the Reverend Doctor William Smith

Creator:

Yeates, Jasper, 1745-1817 (creator, adapter)

Contributor:

Smith, William, 1727-1803 (contributor)

Name:

College, Academy, and Charitable Schools of Philadelphia

Date:

1760

Description:

Manuscript textbook created by a student of the College of Philadelphia (later named the University of Pennsylvania), presumably for his own use.

Language:

English

Relation:

See full finding aid for this collection: https://archives.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/upa3pre1820.pdf

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); lecture notes

Physical Description:

389 pages

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

“Containing Short Treatises (From the most approved Writers) of Arithmetic, Algebra, The Elements of Geometry, Trigonometry, With Practical Geometry, and Conic Sections. To these is added, a Specimen of Italian Bookkeeping. Collected by the Reverend Doctor William Smith, Under whose Tuition and Direction These several Branches of the Mathematics were read, and Transcribed by Jasper Yeates."

Physical Location:

University Archives, University Archives, UPA3 Pre1820, box 27, item 1656