Some principles of arithmetic

Item author: William Baird
Item date: c. 1676
Grant Value: £800
Item cost: £1,605
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2009
Item institution: Edinburgh University Library
Town/City: Edinburgh

An important addition to the Library's collection of early Scottish scientific papers, this manuscript, in a contemporary calf binding, includes sections on mathematics, law and astronomy, with notes and ex libris inscription indicating that it was the work of William Baird of Dysart, Fife.

Item Provenance
Samuel Gedge Rare Books Limited, Norwich