The English academy, or, A brief introduction to the seven liberal arts grammar, arithmetick, geometrie, musick, astronomie, rhetorick & logic : to which is added the necessary arts and mysteries of navigation, dyaling, surveying, mensuration, gauging & fortification, practically laid down in all their material points and particulars, highly approved to be known by the ingenious, and as such are desirous to profit, or render themselves accomplished : chiefly intended for the instruction of young scholars, who are acquainted with no other than their native language, but may also be very useful to other persons that have made some progress in the studies of the said arts / by John Newton.
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The English academy, or, A brief introduction to the seven liberal arts grammar, arithmetick, geometrie, musick, astronomie, rhetorick & logic : to which is added the necessary arts and mysteries of navigation, dyaling, surveying, mensuration, gauging & fortification, practically laid down in all their material points and particulars, highly approved to be known by the ingenious, and as such are desirous to profit, or render themselves accomplished : chiefly intended for the instruction of young scholars, who are acquainted with no other than their native language, but may also be very useful to other persons that have made some progress in the studies of the said arts / by John Newton.
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Newton, John, 1622-1678.
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London :: Printed by A. Milbourn for Tho. Passenger ...,
1693.
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Education, Humanistic -- Early works to 1800.
Education, Medieval.
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"The English academy, or, A brief introduction to the seven liberal arts grammar, arithmetick, geometrie, musick, astronomie, rhetorick & logic : to which is added the necessary arts and mysteries of navigation, dyaling, surveying, mensuration, gauging & fortification, practically laid down in all their material points and particulars, highly approved to be known by the ingenious, and as such are desirous to profit, or render themselves accomplished : chiefly intended for the instruction of young scholars, who are acquainted with no other than their native language, but may also be very useful to other persons that have made some progress in the studies of the said arts / by John Newton." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A52260.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.
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Problem IV. The Circumference of a Circle being given, to find the Diameter.
By the Diameter to find the Circumfe∣rence, the proportion by the tenth Problem is; As 1 to 3.14159, so the Diameter to the Circumference, and therefore putting the Circumference of a Circle to be 1.
As 3.14159 . 1 ∷ 1. 318308.
And therefore as 1 to 318308, so is any other Circumference, to the Diameter sought.
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