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Bass, Michael T. Baudusson, M.
own. He indicates: if you make them in paste-board, you
cannot have less than 15; that is, 3 set.
After describing the use of the bones, Barton continues
with chapters on business topics such as calculating
profit, loss and interest as well as how to calculate the
value of a barter trade deal for each side. The final
sections deal with simple estimates of the tonnage of
a ship, the volume of a cask, measuring timber and an
introduction to square and cube roots.
Illustrations available:
Title page
Pages describing Napier’s bones
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Bass, Michael T. (1799–1884)
Street music in the metropolis.
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Year: 1864
Place: London
Publisher: John Murray
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Binding: original cloth boards; spine and front cover gilt
Pagination: pp. viii, 120
Collation: A 4 B–H 8 I 4
Size: 186x116 mm
Bass was head of Bass & Co., a brewery in Burton-on-
Trent and a Member of Parliament from 1848 to his
retirement in 1873. He seldom rose to speak but was
evidently very active and involved in other aspects of
the job.
As Charles Babbage makes clear in his autobiography
(Babbage, Passages from the life of a philosopher,
1864), he had little regard for street musicians. Michael
Bass was the Member of Parliament who introduced a
bill limiting this nuisance that was never adopted. This
small volume is an attempt to rally support for the cause
and details, among others, an incident in which Babbage
was forced to bring one street musician to court.
Illustrations available:
Title page
Bassentin, Jacques
See Jacquinot, Dominique; L’usage de l’astrolabe,
avec un petit traicté de la sphere … Plus est
adiousté une amplification de l’usage de
l’astrolabe, par Jacques Bassentin Escossis, 1573
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Baudusson, M.
Le rapporteur exact, ou tables des cordes de chaque
angle, depuis une minute jusqu’a cent quatre-vingts
degrés pour un rayon de mille parties égales.
Year: 1842
Place: Paris
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