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John Collins

Born: 1625

Died: 1683

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Born: 1625

Died: 1683

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Salt and fishery: a discourse thereof insisting on the following heads : 1) the several ways of making salt in England, and foreign parts, 2) the character and qualities good and bad, of these several sorts of salt, English refin'd asserted to be much better than any foreign, 3) the catching and curing, or salting of the most eminent or staple sorts of fish, for long or short keeping, 4) the salting of flesh, 5) the cookery of fish and flesh, 6) extraordinary experiments in preserving butter, flesh, fish, fowl, fruit, roots, fresh and sweet for long keeping, 7) the case and sufferings of the saltworkers, 8) proposals for their relief, and for the advancement of the fishery, the woollen, tin, and divers other manufactures

1682

Consuetudo, vel, Lex mercatoria, or, The ancient law-merchant Diuided into three parts: according to the essential parts of trafficke. Necessarie for all statesmen, iudges, magistrates, temporall and ciuile, lawyers, mint-men, merchants, mariners, and all others negotiating in all places of the world

1622

Gerard Malynes, John Marius, of the civill law, Richard Dafforne, John Collins, Abraham Liset

An introduction to merchants accounts: containing five distinct questions or accounts. 1. An easie question to enter beginners, with instructions to post, stated two severall wayes, upon several suppositions, 2. a question of a merchant, adventuring a stock or cargazoon with the purser or sopracargo of a ship, who fells the adventure and furnisheth returns, stated two severall ways, 3. a question of factorage or goods received by consignation, and returns shipt off, with an analysis thereto belonging, 4. a question of ships fraightment, with instructions to keep ship accounts, 5. a question of double exchanges.

1653

Geometricall dyalling: or, Dyalling performed by a line of chords onely, or by the plain scale ... Being a full explication and demonstration of divers difficulties in the works of learned Mr. Samuel Foster ... also a collection of divers things from the works of Clavius and others ...

1659

The sector on a quadrant, or A treatise containing the description and use of four several quadrants two small ones and two great ones, each rendred many wayes, both general and particular.: Each of them accomodated for dyalling; for the resolving of all proportions instrumentally; and for the ready finding the hour and azimuth universally in the equal limbe. Of great use to seamen and practitioners in the mathematicks. Written by John Collins accountant philomath. Also An appendix touching reflected dyalling from a glass placed at any reclination

1659

An introduction to merchants-accompts: containing seven distinct questions or accompts ...

1675

A plea for the bringing in of Irish cattel, and keeping out of fish caught by foreigners together with an humble address to the honourable members of Parliament of the counties of Cornwal and Devon, about the advancement of tin, fishery, and divers manufactures

1680

Salt and fishery a discourse thereof, insisting on the following heads ...

1682

A curious collection of law-books, ancient and modern, consisting of the libraries of John Collins, Esq. ... and of another fam'd practicer of the law: with additions of the best and latest law-books hitherto extant : as also an appendix of a considerable number of books of the civil & canon-law : will be exposed to sale by way of auction, on Munday the 2d day of July, 1683, at the first house on the left-hand in Flying-Horse Court in Fleetstreet, near the Kings-Head Tavern at Chancery Lane end, by Edward Millington, bookseller.

1683

Commercium epistolicum: D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum, de analysi promota, jussu Societatis Regiæ in lucem editum: ...

1722

Commercium epistolicum J. Collins et aliorum de analysi promota, etc: ou, Correspondance de J. Collins et d'autres savants célèbres du XVIIe siècle, relative à l'analyse supérieure, réimprimée sur l'édition originale de 1712 avec l'indication des variantes de l'édition de 1722, complétée par une collection de pièces justificatives et de documents, et publiée par J.-B. Bbiot et F. Lefort

1856

An introduction to merchants accounts containing five distinct questions or accounts ...

1653

An introduction to merchants accounts, containing five distinct questions or accounts An easie question to enter beginners, with instructions to post, stated two severall wayes ... : A question of a merchant, adventuring a stock or cargazoon with the purser ... of a ship, who sells the adventure ... : A question of a ships fraightment, with instructions to keep ship accounts ...

1653

Exchanges ready computed: viz. sterling money to Flemish: and Flemish money to sterling

1655

Consuetudo; vel, Lex Mercatoria; or, The ancient law-merchant, divided into three parts, according to the essentiall parts of trafficke ... also, Advice concerning bils of exchange, wherein the whole practicall part and body of exchange of money is anatomized, by Iohn Marius ... together with A collection of all sea-laws, which are to be found among any people or nation upon the coasts of the great ocean and Mediterranean sea, composed long since by a Professor of the civil law; whereunto is annexed, The merchants mirrour or, Directions for the perfect ordering and keeping of his accounts, framed by way of debitor and creditor ... compiled by Richard Dafforne ...

1656

Gerard Malynes, John Marius, Richard Dafforne, John Collins

The sector on a quadrant, or, A treatise containing the description and use of three several quadrants each rendered many ways both general and particular. Accommodated for dyalling, for the resolving of all proportions instrumentally, and for the ready finding the hour and azimuth universally, in the equal limb. Of great use to seamen, and practioners in the mathematiques

1658

The description and uses of a general quadrant: with the horizontal projection, upon it inverted

1658

The sector on a quadrant, or, A treatise containing the description and use of four several quadrants, two small ones and two great ones, each rendred many wayes, both general and particular each of them accomodated for dyalling, for the resolving of all proportions instrumentally, and for the ready finding the hour and azimuth universally in the equal limbe : of great use to seamen and practitioners in the mathematicks

1659

John Collins, John Lyon

The sector on a quadrant, or, a treatise containing the description and use of four several quadrants; two small ones and two great ones, each rendred many wayes, both general and particular. Each of them accomodated for dyalling; for the resolving of all proportions instrumentally; and for the ready finding the hour and azimuth universally in the equal limbe. Of great use to seamen and practioners in the mathematicks

1659

The sector on a quadrant, or, a treatise containing the description and use of four several quadrants; two small ones and two great ones, each rendred many wayes, both general and particular. Each of them accomodated for dyalling; for the resolving of all proportions instrumentally; and for the ready finding the hour and azimuth universally in the equal limbe. Of great use to seamen and practioners in the mathematicks

1659

sector on a quadrant: or A treatise containing the description and use of four several quadrants : two small ones and two great ones, each rendred many wayes, both general and particular : each of them accomodated for dyalling, for the resolving of all proportions instrumentally, and for the ready finding the hour and azimuth universally in the equal limbe : of great use to seamen and practioners in the mathematicks

1659

Geometrical dyalling, or, Dyalling performed by a line of chords onely, or by the plain scale: wherein is contained two several methods of inscribing the hour-lines in all plains, with the substile, stile and meridian, in their proper coasts and quantities : being a full explication and demonstration of divers difficulties in the works of learned Mr. Samuel Foster deceased ... : whereto is added four new methods of calculation, for finding the requisites in all leaning plains ... : also how by projecting the sphere, to measure off all the arks found by calculation ... : lastly, the making of dyals from three shadows of a gnomon ...

1659

method for finding the number of the Julian period for any year assign'd: the number of the cycle of the sun, the cycle of the moon, and of the indications, for the same year, being given: together with the demonstration of that method.

1667

Lectiones opticæ & geometricæ in quibus phænomenon opticorum genuinæ rationes investigantur, ac exponuntur et generalia curvarum linearum symtomata declarantur

1674

Isaac Barrow, John Collins, Isaac Newton

An introduction to merchants-accompts containing seven distinct questions or accompts ...

1674

Salt and fishery

1682

The doctrine decimal arithmetick, simple interest, &c.: as also of compound interest and annuities generally performed for any time of payment or rate of interest by help of a particular table of forbearance of 1l principal, with enlarged rules, formerly abridged for portability in a letter case

1685

Consuetudo; vel, Lex mercatoria; or, the ancient law-merchant, in three parts, according to the essentials of traffick ... whereunto are annexed the following tracts, viz. I. The collection of sea laws. II. Advice concerning bills of exchange, by John Marius ... III. The merchants mirrour; or, Directions for the perfect ordering or keeping of his accounts ... by R. Dafforne ... IV. An introduction to merchants accounts, by John Collins ... V. The accountants closet, being an abridgment of merchants accounts, kept by debtor and creditor, by Abraham Liset

1686

Malynes, Gerard, Borough, John Sir, John Marius, Richard Dafforne, John Collins, Abraham Liset

Collins's arithmetick, in whole numbers and fracti[ons], both vulgar and deci[mal]: with tables for the forebe[arance and] rebate of money, the summi[ng up] of annuities, and the purch[ase] of leases at compound interest

1688

Collins's Arithmetick: in whole numb[ers] and fraction[s] both vulgar and deci[...] With tables for the forb[...] rebate of money, the summi[...] of annuities, and the purch[ase] of leases at compound interest

1688

The country-survey-book, or, Land-meter's vade-mecum: wherein the principles and ... rules for surveying of land are ... plainly ... deliver'd ... : with an appendix containing twelve problems touching compound-interest and annuities ...

1711

Adam Martindale, John Collins

Commercium epistolicum D. Johannis Collins: et aliorum, de analysi promota, jussu Societatis Regiæin lucem editum: et jam unà cum ejusdem recensione præmissa, & judicio primarii, ut ferebatur, mathematice subjuncto, iterum impressum.

1722

Commercium epistolicum Johannis Collins, et aliorum de analysi promota

1722

Commercium epistolicum D. Johannis Collins, et aliorum, de analysi promota: jussu Societatis Regiae in lucem editum : et jam unà cum ejusdem recensione praemissa, & judicio primarii, ut ferebatur, mathematici subjuncto, iterum impressum.

1722

The description and use of four several quadrants, two great ones, and two small ones With the use of a diagonal-scale and semi-circle ...

1723

Commercium epistolicum de varia re mathematica

1725

John Collins, Newton, Isaac Sir, Isaac Newton, Royal Society (Great Britain)

Commercium epistolicum de varia re mathematica, inter celeberrimos praesentis seculi mathematicos

1725

The description and use of four several quadrants: two great ones, and two small ones. ... Invented and written by ... John Collins, and engrav'd by the curious hand of Mr. Henry Sutton; with additions, not in the former treatise, by John Good.

1750

Commercium epistolicum J. Collins et aliorum de analysi promota, etc., ou, Correspondance de J. Collins et d'autres savants célèbres du XVIIe siècle, relative à l'analyse supérieure

1856