The Modern Accountant or a new and improved method of teaching Arithmetic : containing a complete set of arithmetical tables. Notes on the powers and properties of numbers, all the most useful rules in common arithmetic, including a number of original methods of calculations which for shortness of operation has never been equalled. Vulgar and decimal fractions. Extraction and use of the square and cube root. A complete system of duodecimals or cross multiplication, after a new and easy method, applied to the measuring of carpenters, joiners, brick-layers, slaters, plasterers, glaziers, painters, paviers and diggers' work. The Sliding Rule to which is added the Gregorian Kalendar, the time and manner of its formation. A table of dominical letters. A table showing the days of the month for ever, with proper rules for finding the dominical letter, Leap Year, solar cycle, lunar cycle or golden number, Roman indiction, dyonisian or victorian period, julian period, epact, moon's age, moon's southing, time of high water at any place, the hour of the night, by the moon shining on a sun dial, as also the causes of the ebbing and flowing of the sea on opposite sides of the globe at the same time, the different kinds of eclipses, both of sun and mood, their causes, periods of return etc. The whole demonstrated by plain rules and proper examples att wrought at full length and many of them by a variety of methods of operation. By James Nicolson, Teacher, author of Time's lasting standard, New system of chronology, astronomy, Practical measurer, Weaver's Companion, etc