Arithmetick; or, The ground of arts : teaching that science, both in whole numbers and fractions. Theoretically and practically applied in the operation and solution of questions in numeration, addition, substraction, multiplication, division, the rules of proportion, fellowship, barter, rules of practice, exchange of coin, loss and gain, tare, trett, and other questions relating to weights and measures, lengths and breadths, equation of payments, commission to factors, rules of alligation, and of false position, &c. Originally composed by Dr. Record, and others. And now perused, corrected, new methodized, much improved; and thereto added, I. A new treatise of decimals, with the demonstration of each rule, and the relation it has to vulgar fractions; also why decimals are wrought as whole numbers, &c. II. Tables of simple and compound interest, with the manner of calculation, and use thereof in resolving all the most necessary questions, concerning interest and discount of money; the purchasing or selling estates, in land or houses, in present, or reversion, in fee or for time limited, and for fining off rent, &c. III. The easiest method of extracting the square and cube-roots of numbers, whole or broken, and the use thereof in many material instances. By Edw. Hatton, philomercat.