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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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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Willsford, Thomas.
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London, :: Printed by J.G. for Nath: Brook, at the angel in Cornhill.,
1660.
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Architecture -- Early works to 1800.
Arithmetic -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A74684.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 27, 2024.

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An explanation of simple Interest. lib. 2. parag. 10.

In this double

  Princi. Inter. Princ.
1 Rule 100... 6... 650
  D — D
2 Rule 365 192
Prod. 36500. 6. 124800
Or as- 365 to 6. so 1248
facit 20 l 10 ss 3 d. 2 34/73 Q
rule the first term is 100 l. the second its interest for a yeare, the third is the prin∣cial lent: the first term of the second rule 365, the num∣ber of dayes in a vulgar year; the last term is 192, the number of dayes terminating the time, accoun∣ting 4 weeks to the moneth; the products of these are 36500, and 124800, and reduced will be 365 and 1248. which multilied by 6 l the interest is 7488, and divided by 365 the quotient will be (in a direct proportion) 20 l 10 ss 3 d 2 34/73, as in the table, the simple interest of 650 l. the time requi∣red.

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