Bonnycastle, John. — THE SCHOLAR’S GUIDE TO ARITHMETIC; Or a Complete Exercise Book for the Use of Schools With Notes, Containing the Reason of Every Rule, Deduced from the Most Simple and Evident Principles; Together with Some of the Most Useful Properties of Numbers, and Such Other Particulars as are Calculated to Elucidate the More Abstruse and Interesting Parts of the Science.
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, ... 1818. 11th Ed. 12mo. [viii] + 254pp. + [i]. Some significant brown spots to pp.167-194, age toning, rebound in modern half calf with marbled boards, gilt lettered labels to spine. Bonnycastle explicitly included the "Beer Measure" alongside wine and dry goods. Students learned to calculate volume in pints, quarts, gallons, firkins, kilderkins, barrels, and hogsheads.This arithmetic was necessary for excise officers (tax collectors) and brewers to determine the precise volume of liquid in irregular wooden brewing vats, a mathematical practice known as gauging. From the Library of P. A. Martin a noted researcher historically associated with the Process Research Department at Allied Breweries (Production) Limited located on Station Street in Burton-on-Trent. He is well-known in brewing science and microbiology literature for his work during the 1970s and 1980s regarding yeast flocculation, finings, and the vitamin nutrition and status of Zymomonas species.
