A mathematical miscellany in four parts. I An essay towards the probable solution of Gordon's forty-five surprizing geographical paradoxes, and others added in this edition. II. Fifty five new and amazing paradoxes and aenigmas, some in verse, some in prose, with their solutions; to which are subjoined several others, left unanswered for the amusement of the ingenious of either sex. III. Answers to the hundred questions, formerly left unanswered in Hill's Arithmetick and Alexander's Algebra, and a selectnumber of curious questions left unanswered. IV. Miscellanious rules about forming aenigmas, questions, &c. A discourse concerning the principles of astronomy, doctrine of eclipses, properties of pendulums, equation of time and chonology; concluding with a perpetual almanack,..

by Fuller, Samuel

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