The Elements of Algebra in a New and Easy Method, With Their Use and Application, in the Solution of a Great Variety of Arithmetical and Geometrical ... an Introduction, Containing a Succinct His - Softcover

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Lucas Paciolas a F mncifinn F riar, commonly known by the Name of Lucas dc Barge 81mm Sepalabri, publifh cd at Venice, under the Title of, A Complete: Tread]? Of Aritbmlz'ck 432 Germany, Propwtioxs and Bwiam, the Brit Book at prefent extant on this Subject. It was printed [6 early as 1494, and is a very correct Treotife: He af cribes the Invention of Algebra to the Jeans, ufes their Method, and treates very cleanl y of Quadraticlc Equations. After him, facial Authors wrote on the fame Subject in and in Gamay but (till the Art advanced little till cbe famous j'erom Garden primed, at Nwméerg in in Folio, a Treatiié with this Title, Arm magma, five dc Regalis Agebraici: Liber 1mm 5 and {000 after a finaller Piece, with the Title of Senna dc P110 63 Maw, wherein were contained Rules for refolv ing Cubick Equations, which have finoe been called Car drm's Rules, timngh they were not invented by him, bet, as himfelf owns, by Scipio PM of Bononia, and Tar talea. The next celebrated Writer was a Frmb Monk, whofe Name was Belem, better known to the learned by his Latin Appellation of Butane; hepubliflted in 1559 his Lagrfiica, in which there was a Troatife of Algebra which gained him great Reputation: Yet his Excellency lay in a clear and copious Manner of Writing, nor does it ap pear thathe added any thing to what had been already d ifcovered, except fome Corvettions as to Tataka's Me thod of managing Gubich Equations.

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