Authority Cited: Malcolm
Author name and dates: Alexander Malcolm (1685-1763)
BKG Bio-tweet: Math teacher at Aberdeen; pub. on music (source for Chamber's Cyclopedia), beekeeping; rector in Massachusetts and Maryland
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: SJ quotes Malcolm once in the 1755 Dict., along with Cocker, but leaves only the Cocker quote in the 1773 Dict.. Item 589 in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., is 11. Malcolm's Arithimetic, &c.]
Author name and dates: Alexander Malcolm (1685-1763)
BKG Bio-tweet: Math teacher at Aberdeen; pub. on music (source for Chamber's Cyclopedia), beekeeping; rector in Massachusetts and Maryland
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: SJ quotes Malcolm once in the 1755 Dict., along with Cocker, but leaves only the Cocker quote in the 1773 Dict.. Item 589 in the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., is 11. Malcolm's Arithimetic, &c.]
- A new system of arithmetick, theorical and practical. Wherein the science of numbers is demonstrated in a regular course from its First Principles, thro' all the Parts and Branches thereof; Either known to the Ancients, or owing to the Improvements of the Moderns. The Practice and Application to the Affairs of Life and Commerce being also Fully Explained: So as to make the Whole a Complete System of Theory, For the Purposes of Men of Science; And of Practice, for Men of Business. By Alexander Malcolm, A. M. Teacher of the Mathematicks at Aberdeen. 1730, London: printed for J. Osborn and T. Longman, in Pater-noster-Row; F. Fayram, and E. Symon, at the Royal Exchange; fellowship (p. 549)