<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Isaac Newhall his book, 1794</dc:title><dc:creator>Newhall, Isaac</dc:creator><dc:date>1794</dc:date><dc:description>A rare survival from the eighteenth century, this school exercise book contains numerous pages of mathematical figures as well as a number of word problems that require more complex reasoning skills. While the binding (using a wallpaper fragment) and the handwriting suggest a North American provenance, there is some internal evidence referring to British subjects.</dc:description><dc:format>text</dc:format></oai_dc:dc>