Donne, Benjamin, 1729-1798
Donn, Benjamin 1729-1798
Benjamin Donn British mathematician
Donn, Benjamin
Donne, Benjamin
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Works
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| The accountant and geometrician : containing the doctrine of circulating decimals, logarithms, Book-Keeping, and Plane Geometry. Designed for the Use of Schools, as well as private Gentlemen. By Benjamin Donn, Teacher of the Mathematicks, etc. late of Bideford, now of the City of Bristol. |
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| Avon (Gran Bretaña) (Condado) |
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| The British mariner's assistant: |
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| Cartes, plans et vues sur les Iles Britanniques] |
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| The description and use of Donn's improved navigation scale. |
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| The description and use of four new instruments : viz. First. The variation and tide instrument. Second. A lunar instrument for shewing the places of sun and moon; also for finding the Time of High-Water at any Time and Place, both on Common and New Principles; to which is added, a Nautical Pocket Piece. Third. The improved analemma, for solving the Common Problems of the Celestial Globe. Fourth. The panorganon for solving those of the terrestrial globe; being very useful to young Students in Geography |
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| An enlarged syllabus of a course of lectures in experimental philosophy : as usually exhibited on a proper apparatus, by Benjamin Donn, Teacher of the Mathematics. |
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| An epitome of natural and experimental philosophy, including geography, with the use of the globes, ... Designed for the use of schools. ... By Benjamin Donn. |
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| An essay on mechanical geometry, chiefly explanatory of a set of schemes and models, by which The knowledge of the most useful propositions of Euclid, and other celebrated Geometricians, may be clearly and expeditiously conveyed, even to youth of an early age. By Benjamin Donne, Master of the Mechanics in Ordinary to His Majesty. |
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| The geometrician : containing essays on plane geometry, and trigonometry: with their application to the solutions of a variety of problems, which are of great Use in measuring Heights and Distances of Places, surveying of Counties, Sea-Coasts, &c |
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| Inglaterra. SO. (Gran Bretaña) |
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| Map of the County of Devon, with the City & County of Exeter |
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| A Map of the Western Circuit of England : Containing the Counties of Cornwal, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wilts & Hants. |
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| Mathematical essays, 1758: |
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| Mathematical essays : or a new introduction to the mathematics: being essays on vulgar and decimal arithmetic. Containing, Not only the practical Rules, but also the Reasons and Demonstrations of them; with so much of the Theory, and of universal Arithmetic or Algebra, as is necessary for the better understanding the Practice and Demonstrations. With a general preface, on the usefulness of mathematical learning |
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| Mathematical tables, or Tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, right ascension and declination of the sun, and seventy fixed stars of the first and second magnitudes, moon's parallax, difference of parallax and refraction, for finding the moon's true altitude, etc. etc : Illustrated by an essay on the nature, investigation, and application of logarithms, etc. to every useful species of calculation in trigonometry, navigation and astronomy. By Benjamin Donn, professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, Bristol. |
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| Plan of the town & citadel of Plimouth Plan of Stoke town and Plymouth Dock |
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| Proposals for publishing a new and accurate map of the county of Devon, ... by * [sic] Benjamin Donn. Engraved by Mr. Jefferys. |
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| The schoolmaster's repository, or pupil's exercise, intended as a supplement to the Mathematical essays, or A New Introduction to the Mathematics: being a collection of arithmetical questions and answers, from more than Twenty Authors, and some Manuscripts. Designed for the use of schools. |
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| This Map of the Country 11 Miles round the City of Bristol |
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| The use of the ge-organon, 1787: |
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| The use of the ge-organon and improved analemma, or substitutes for the terrestrial and celestial globe. Invented by B. Donne, Teacher of the Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, at Bristol. Price of the Ge-Organon in Sheets 6s. 6d.; but if fitted up with moveable Hour Circles, etc. 10s.Of the Analemma 3s. 6d. and of this Pamphlet 1s. |
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| The young shopkeeper's, steward's, and factor's, companion : Containing I. A new and expeditious method of keeping a set of books, in a retail trade, by double entry. II. The application to the business of a steward, in a new manner. III. The mehod of keeping factorage accounts, as practised in the West-Indies; with occasional remarks. Compiled for the use of the Mathematical Academy, in Bristol. |
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