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The term 'ready reckoner' was coined by the schoolmaster Daniel Fenning with the publication of The ready reckoner; or trader's most useful assistant in 1757. [6] This was a modernised and extended version of Leybourn's work, which was reprinted in Boston, Massachusetts, about 1770, and translated into German in Germantown, Philadelphia, 1774. [7]
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Davyd Bryce and Son was a Scottish publishing house, known as being one of the most prolific and successful makers of miniature books in the world. [1] It was founded by David Bryce of Glasgow (1845-1923) in 1832. [2]
The Navigator's Ready Calculator; designed for the practical Sailor, being a complete and easy introduction to navigation, and containing a newly-invented instrument, by means of which all of the cases in the different sailings are solved. William Day: London, 1838 or 1839. The Creed of Saint Athanasius proved by a Mathematical Parallel.
A page from a ready reckoner published in 1854 shows that conversions between Jersey currency, sterling and livres were still being carried out at that time By the 1830s, the surviving livre coinage was in very short supply in Jersey and so worn as to be unusable.
Phrase book – a collection of ready-made phrases, arranged systematically, usually for a foreign language together with a translation; Ready reckoner – a printed book or table containing pre-calculated values; Thematic catalogue – an index used to identify musical compositions through the citation of the opening notes
John Entick (c.1703 – May 1773) was an English schoolmaster and author. He was largely a hack writer, working for Edward Dilly, and he padded his credentials with a bogus M.A. and a portrait in clerical dress; some of his works had a more lasting value.
Most of the traditional paintings of the Mysore School, which have survived until today, belong to this reign. Furthermore, Krishnaraja Wodeyar provided new fillip to the artists of the Mysore school through his Magnum Opus Sritattvanidhi, which would remain the ready reckoner on Mysore style for many years to come. On the walls of Jagan Mohan ...