The private instructor, or, Mathematics simplified : comprising every thing necessary in arithmetic, book-keeping, conveyancing, mensuration, and guaging, to form and complete the man of business : the whole upon an improved plan not only adapted to private instruction, but also the use of schools
On flyleaf: Emma F. Musser, Silver Spring, Lanc. Co. Pa.
Summary
An 1836 effort to provide a complete course or reference in mathematics. The author proposes this book to educate a person for the world of business. The author was a resident of Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Published also under title: A compendium of natural philosophy.
First ed. in 2 vols. was published in 1763.
The second volume contains an abridgment of The contemplation of nature by M. Bonnet and extracts from Duten's Enquiry into the origin of the discoveries attributed to the moderns.
