Simon Stevin

"Disme: the Art of Tenths, Or, Decimall Arithmetike by Simon Stevin Tr. Robert Norton"

"We call the wise age that in which men had a wonderful knowledge of science which we recognize without fail by certain signs, although without knowing who they were, or in what place, or when. ...It h…"

"The first Part. Of the Definitions of the Dismes. The first Definition. Disme is a kind of Arithmeticke, invented by the tenth progression, consisting in Characters of Cyphers; whereby a certaine numb…"

"Multiplication of whole Numbers ...Note, that for the more easie solution of this proposition, it were necessary to have in memory the multiplication of the 9 simple Characters among themselves, learn…"

"something admirable and very necessary to see and to read, namely the order in the method of writing on mathematics in that aforementioned time of the wise age."

"Wonder, not miracle motto of Simon Stevin by Ad Davidse Cathie Schrier, with some of his work."

"If all this be not put in practize... it wil be beneficiall to our successors, if future men shal hereafter be of such nature as our predecessors, who were never negligent of so great advantage. ...th…"

"The seventh Definition. The Golden Rule, or Rule of three, is that by which to three tearmes given, the fourth proportionall tearme is found."