Turner, R., 1723/4-1791
Turner, Richard, ca. 1723-1791
Richard Turner
Turner, R. (Richard), 1723 or 4-1791
Turner, Richard (1723 lub 1724-1791).
Turner, Richard 1720-1791
Richard Turner Church of England clergyman and educational writer
Turner, R. (Richard), 1723 or 1724-1791
VIAF ID: 18682312 (Personal)
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- 100 0 _ ‡a Richard Turner
- 100 0 _ ‡a Richard Turner ‡c Church of England clergyman and educational writer
- 100 1 _ ‡a Turner, R. ‡q (Richard), ‡d 1723 or 1724-1791
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- 100 1 _ ‡a Turner, Richard ‡d 1720-1791
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4xx's: Alternate Name Forms (15)
Works
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New and easy introduction to universal geography | |
A new introduction to book-keeping : after the Italian method, by debtor and creditor ... with a waste-book subjoined as an example for practice ... | |
Plain trigonometry rendered easy and familiar : by calculations in arithmetick only: With Its Application and Use In ascertaining all Kinds of Heights, Depths, and Distances, In The Heavens, as well as on the Earth and Seas; Whether Of Towers, Forts, Trees, Pyramids, Columns, Wells, Ships, Hills, Clouds, Thunder and Lightning, Atmosphere, Sun, Moon, Mountains in the Moon, Shadows of Earth and Moon, Beginning and End of Eclipses, &c. In which is also shewn, A Curious Trigonometrical Method of discovering the Places where Bees hive in large Woods, in order to obtain, more readily, the salutary Produce of those little Insects | |
A view of the earth; being a short but comprehensive system of modern geography ... To which is added, a description of the terrestrial globe; with its application to a great variety of useful problems ... | |
The young geometrician's companion : being a new and comprehensive course of practical geometry; Containing, I. An easy Introduction to Decimal Arithmetic, with the Extractions of the Square, Cube, Biquadrate, and other Roots. II. Such Definitions, Axioms, Problems, Theorems, and Characters, as necessarily lead to the Knowledge of this Science. III. Planometry, or the Mensuration of Superficies; as Squares, Parallelograms, Triangles, Circles, Segments, &c. IV. Stereometry, or the Mensuration of Solids; as Cubes, Parallelopipedons, Prisms, Cones, Pyramids, Cylinders, Spheres, Frustums, &c. V. The Sections of a Cone; as Ellipses, Parabolas, Hyperbolas, Spheroids, Conoids, Spindles, &c. VI. The Platonic Bodies; as Tetraedrons, Hexaëdrons, Octaëdrons, Dodecaëdrons, and Icosaëdrons. To Which is Added A Collection of curious and interesting Problems, shewing that Lines and Angles, (and consequently the least Particle of Matter) may be divided in infinitum; that Superficies and Solids may be so cut as to appear considerably augmented; and, that the famous Problem of Archimedes, of moving the Earth, is capable of an easy and accurate Demonstration. Calculated for the Use of Schools and Academies. And is necessary to be gone through by the Scholar before he proceeds to the higher and more abstruse Branches of the Mathematics, Indivisibles, Infinites, Algebra, and Fluxions |