Collins, John, 1625-1683
John Collins mathematician
John Collins English mathematician
Collins, John
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Works
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Appendix touching reflective dialling | |
Collins's Arithmetick : in whole numb[ers] and fraction[s] both vulgar and deci[...] With tables for the forb[...] rebate of money, the summi[...] of annuities, and the purch[ase] of leases at compound interest | |
Commercium epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum, de analysi promota, jussu Societatis regiae in lucem editum : et jam unà cum ejusdem recensione praemissa, & judicio primarii, ut ferebatur, mathematici subjuncto, iterum impressum. | |
Commercium epistolicum J. Collins et aliorum de analysi promota, etc., ou, Correspondance de J. Collins et d'autres savants célèbres du XVIIe siècle, relative à l'analyse supérieure | |
Consuetudo vel lex mercatoria, or, The ancient law-merchant : divided into three parts | |
Correspondence with Collins and Wallis. | |
The country-survey-book: or Land-meters vade-mecum : Wherein the principles and practical rules for surveying of land, are so plainly (though briefly) delivered, that any one of ordinary parts (understanding how to add, substract, multiply and divide,) may by the help of this small treatise alone and a few cheap instruments easy to be procured, measure a parcel of land, and with judgment and expedition plot it, and give up the content thereof. With an appendix, containing twelve problems touching compound interest and annuities; and a method to contract the work of fellowship and alligation alternate, very considerably in many cases. Illustrated with copper plates. By Adam Martindale, a friend to mathematical learning | |
A curious collection of law-books, ancient and modern, consisting of the libraries of John Collins, Esq. ... and of another fam'd practicer of the law : with additions of the best and latest law-books hitherto extant : as also an appendix of a considerable number of books of the civil & canon-law : will be exposed to sale by way of auction, on Munday the 2d day of July, 1683, at the first house on the left-hand in Flying-Horse Court in Fleetstreet, near the Kings-Head Tavern at Chancery Lane end, by Edward Millington, bookseller | |
The description and use of four several quadrants, two great ones, and two small ones, 1750: | |
The doctrine decimal arithmetick, simple interest, &c : as also of compound interest and annuities generally performed for any time of payment or rate of interest by help of a particular table of forbearance of 1l principal, with enlarged rules, formerly abridged for portability in a letter case | |
Exchanges ready computed: viz. sterling money to Flemish: and Flemish money to sterling | |
Geometricall dyalling | |
Geometricall dyalling, or, Dyalling performed by a line of chords onely, or by the plain scale : wherein is contained two several methods of inscribing the hour-lines in all plains, with the substile, stile and meridian, in their proper coasts and quantities : being a full explication and demonstration of divers difficulties in the works of learned Mr. Samuel Foster deceased, late Professor of Astronomy in Gresham Colledge : also a collection of divers things from the works of Clavius and others, whereto is added four new methods of calculation, for finding the requisites in all leaning plains, with full directions suited to each method for placing them in their proper coasts, without the help of any delineations : also how by projecting the sphere, to measure off all the arks found by calculation, and to determine what hours are proper to all kinde of plains, omitting superfluity : lastly, the making of dyals from three shadows of a gnomon placed in a wall at random, with a method of calculation suited thereto, and divers ways from three shadows, to finde a meridian-line | |
An introduction to merchants-accompts : containing seven distinct questions or accompts | |
James Gregory. | |
Lectiones opticæ & geometricæ : in quibus phænomenon opticorum genuinæ rationes investigantur, ac exponuntur et generalia curvarum linearum symtomata declarantur | |
Merchants Myrrour | |
Navigation by the mariners plain scale new plain'd: or, A treatise of geometrical and arithmetical navigation; wherein sayling is performed in all the three kindes by a right line, and a circle divided into equal parts : Containing 1. New ways of keeping of a reckoning, or platting of a traverse, both upon the plain and mercators chart ... 2. New rules for estimating the ships way through currents, and for correcting the dead reckoning. 3. The refutation of divers errors, and of the plain chart, and how to remove the error committed thereby ... as also a table thereof made to every other centesm. 4. A new easie method of calculation for great circle-sayling, with new projections, schemes and charts ... 5. Arithmetical navigation, or navigation performed by the pen, if tables were wanting | |
A plea for the bringing in of Irish cattel, and keeping out of fish caught by foreigners together with an humble address to the honourable members of Parliament of the counties of Cornwal and Devon | |
Salt and fishery. | |
Salt and fishery : a discourse thereof insisting on the following heads. 1. The several ways of making salt in England, and foreign parts. 2. The character and qualities good and bad, of these several sorts of salt, English refin'd asserted to be much better than any foreign. 3. The catching and curing, or salting of the most eminent or staple sorts of fish, for long or short keeping. 4. The salting of flesh. 5. The cookery of fish and flesh. 6. Extraordinary experiments in preserving butter, flesh, fish, fowl, fruit, and roots, fresh and sweet for long keeping. 7. The case and sufferings of the saltworkers. 8. Proposals for their relief, and for the advancement of the fishery, the woollen, tin, and divers other manufactures. By John Collins, accomptant to the Royal Fishery Company. E Reg. Soc. Philomath. | |
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