Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
N.d.
Primary Source Reference:
Museum Auction Broadside, Lot 10 (Mathematics)
Notes:
Not listed in Library Company's 1789 Catalogue; 1st ed was Oxford 1701; attributed variously to John Arbuthnot, Martin Strong, and John Keill. Cf. Halkett & Laing, Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous English literature.
Valued at 1s 6d in Du Simitière estate inventory, Library Company of Philadelphia, p. 4
Title Information:
An essay on the usefulness of mathematical learning
