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Author: Willsford, Thomas.
Title: The scales of commerce and trade: ballancing betwixt the buyer and seller, artificer and manufacture, debitor and creditor, the most general questions, artificiall rules, and usefull conclusions incident to traffique: comprehended in two books. The first states the ponderates to equity and custome, all usuall rules, legall bargains and contracts, in wholesale ot [sic] retaile, with factorage, returnes, and exchanges of forraign coyn, of interest-money, both simple and compounded, with solutions from naturall and artificiall arithmetick. The second book treats of geometricall problems and arithmeticall solutions, in dimensions of lines, superficies and bodies, both solid and concave, viz. land, wainscot, hangings, board, timber, stone, gaging of casks, military propositions, merchants accounts by debitor and creditor; architectonice, or the art of building. / By Thomas Willsford Gent.
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Print source: The scales of commerce and trade: ballancing betwixt the buyer and seller, artificer and manufacture, debitor and creditor, the most general questions, artificiall rules, and usefull conclusions incident to traffique: comprehended in two books. The first states the ponderates to equity and custome, all usuall rules, legall bargains and contracts, in wholesale ot [sic] retaile, with factorage, returnes, and exchanges of forraign coyn, of interest-money, both simple and compounded, with solutions from naturall and artificiall arithmetick. The second book treats of geometricall problems and arithmeticall solutions, in dimensions of lines, superficies and bodies, both solid and concave, viz. land, wainscot, hangings, board, timber, stone, gaging of casks, military propositions, merchants accounts by debitor and creditor; architectonice, or the art of building. / By Thomas Willsford Gent.
Willsford, Thomas.

London,: Printed by J.G. for Nath: Brook, at the angel in Cornhill., 1660.
Subject terms:
Architecture -- Early works to 1800.
Arithmetic -- Early works to 1800.
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Contents
THE FIRST BOOK.
part 1
THE SECOND PART.
PROPOSITION XLVII.
The fourth Table exemplified in discount of Annui∣ties, Rents, Pensions, or Reversions, at 6 L per cent. per ann. compound interest.
The fifth Table does demonstrate in its use the pur∣chasing of Annuities, Rents, Pensions, or Rever∣sions, at 6 L per centum per annum compound Interest.
THE SECOND BOOK. Demonstrating a Sympatheti∣cal affection between Arith∣metick and Geometry, by solution of several Problemes or Propositions of Mag∣nitude with exactness by the assistance of Art and Numbers.