{"product_id":"1807-the-scholars-arithmetic-or-federal-accountant","title":"1807 The Scholar's Arithmetic; or Federal Accountant","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdams, Daniel. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Scholar's Arithmetic; or Federal Accountant\u003c\/strong\u003e. Keene, N. H.: Printed by and for John Prentiss, 1807. Fourth Edition. [12408]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrown leather spine with marbled paper boards, scuffed and edge-worn, yet with good sturdy joints, stain on the spine, 8 1\/2 x 5 1\/4 inches. Contemporary inscription, \"David Stevens Property\" on the front free end paper. [i]-viii, [9]-216 pages, counted and complete. There is a 3 inch diagonal tear at the bottom of leaf pp. 25-26, with no loss of paper. Beginning at p. 60 many of the blank spaces are filled in by hand, giving the answer to the mathematical question of the text. Good. Hardcover.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTitle continues:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContaining, I. Common Arithmetic, the Rules and Illustrations. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eII. Examples and Answers with Blank Spaces, sufficient for their operations by the Scholar. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIII. To each Rule a Supplement, comprehending 1. Questions on the nature of the Rule, its use, and the manner of its operations. 2. Exercises. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIV. Federal Money, with rules for all the various operations in it - to reduce Federal to Old Lawful and Old Lawful to Federal Money. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eV. Interest cast in Federal Money, with Compound Multiplication, Compound Division and Practice, wrought in Old Lawful and in Federal Money, the same questions being put, in separate columns, on the same page, in each kind of money, by which these two modes of account become contrasted, and the great advantage gained by reckoning in Federal Money easily discerned. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVI. Demonstrations by engravings, of the reason and nature of the various steps in the extraction of the Square and the Cube Roots, not to be found in any other treatise on Arithmetic. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVII. Forms of Notes, Deeds, Bonds, and other instruments of writing. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Whole in a Form and Method altogether New, for the Ease of the Master, and the Greater Progress of the Scholar.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten at a time when American money was changing from the old English system of pounds, shillings, pence, and farthings to the new American system of Dollars and Cents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDaniel Adams (1773-1864), b. Townsend, Mass.; d. Keene, New Hampshire. A medical doctor, he graduated from Dartmouth College (1797), and received his M.D. two years later. He began a medical practice in Leominster, Mass., in 1800, and gave a very well-received eulogy of George Washington after Washington's death the same year. He moved to Boston around 1805, edited a medical journal, teaching at a private school. In 1813 he returned to the practice of medicine in Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, moving to Keene in 1846. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The author whose arithmetics gained the widest circulation of any before those of Joseph Ray was Adams. In 1801 he published \u003cem\u003eThe Scholar's Arithmetic; or, Federal Accountant\u003c\/em\u003e. The contents were more clearly and simply presented than was done either in Dilworth's or Pike's books...One unusual feature was that space was left blank between the problems for their solutions. In a sense this was a combination textbook and workbook.\" - John Neitz, \u003cem\u003eOld Textbooks\u003c\/em\u003e, p. 162.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Adams compiled or wrote several different textbooks over the course of his life. His first was \u003cem\u003eThe Scholar's Arithmetic\u003c\/em\u003e (1801). The text was very popular during the first quarter of the 19th century, and he published a revision of it, entitled \u003cem\u003eAdam's New Arithmetic\u003c\/em\u003e, in 1827. Much later in 1848, he published another mathematics textbook entitled \u003cem\u003ePrimary Arithmetic\u003c\/em\u003e. He compiled three reading textbooks during his life, \u003cem\u003eThe Understanding Reader\u003c\/em\u003e (1803), \u003cem\u003eThe Agricultural Reader\u003c\/em\u003e (1824), and \u003cem\u003eThe Monitorial Reader\u003c\/em\u003e (1841). He also wrote a grammar textbook \u003cem\u003eThe Thorough Scholar, or the Nature of Language\u003c\/em\u003e (1802), a geography textbook \u003cem\u003eGeography, or a Description of the World\u003c\/em\u003e (1814), and an accounting textbook \u003cem\u003eBookkeeping\u003c\/em\u003e (1849).\" - Dartmouth Libraries Archives \u0026amp; Manuscripts online.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haaswurth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45183977848898,"sku":"ABE12408","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0191\/6066\/2082\/files\/DSC08332BackgroundRemoved.png?v=1789051163","url":"https:\/\/www.haaswurth.com\/products\/1807-the-scholars-arithmetic-or-federal-accountant","provider":"Haaswurth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}