Student mathematical notebook of Ebenezer Hill, 1785

This mathematical notebook of Ebenezer Hill was kept in 1795 while he was a student at Harvard College. The volume contains rules, definitions, problems, drawings, and tables on arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, surveying, calculating distances, and dialing. Some of the exercises are illustrated by hand-drawn diagrams, including some of buildings and trees.

[Arithmetic]-- [Fractions]-- Arithmetical Progression-- Geometrical Progression-- Fellowship-- Barter-- Loss and Gain-- Tare and Tret-- Discount-- Equation of payment-- Interest-- Alligation-- [Roots]-- [Measure]-- Exchange-- Gauging-- Position-- Elements of Geometry-- Construction of the Plain Scale-- Surveying-- Trigonometry-- Mensuration of Heights and Distances-- Dialling-- Algebra

Title supplied by cataloger. Received on October 22, 1942 from Rev. John B. Hill of Arlington. The flyleaf has a handwritten note: "See 'Memoir of the Rev. Ebenezer Hill, p. 11. See Ebenezer Hill, the Little Minister of mason, N.H., p. 9."

Flyleaf inscription: "Eben Hill 1785."

Ebenezer Hill (1766-1854), minister of the town of Mason, NH, was born on January 31, 1766 in Cambridge, Mass. He received an AB from Harvard in 1786 and an AM in 1789. He was ordained as the pastor of Mason, NH on November 3, 1790, and served there until his death on May 20, 1854.

The Harvard University Archives holds similar late 18th century mathematical notebooks by students Ephraim Eliot (HUC 8779.353) William Emerson Faulkner (HUC 8795.353.26), Samuel Griffin (HUC 8784.353), William Tudor (HUC 8795.353.88), and Thomas Noyes (HUC 8793.353).