and
Stifelius, was an Augustine monk but became a convert to Lutheranism. He
was professor of mathematics at Jena (1559-1567). His edition of the _Coss_
appeared at Koenigsberg in 1553, the first edition having been published in
1525. The + and - signs first appeared in print in Widman's arithmetic of
1489, but for purposes of algebra this book was one of the first to make
them known.

[680] Christoff Rudolff was born about 1500 and died between 1540 and 1552.
_Die Coss_ appeared in 1525 and his arithmetic in 1526.

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Corrections made to printed original.

Page 9, "long-fostered prejudice": 'perjudice' in original.

Page 73, "Pensees, ch. 7": 'Pansees' in original.

Page 127, "and pulled out a plum": 'und' in original.

Page 147, "did not come forward": 'forword' in original.

Page 172, "come into general circulation": 'circulalation' in original.

Ibid., "the more difficult fractions which we have got": 'he have got' in
original.

Page 192, "it has been stated": 'started' in original.

Page 216, "the obsolete word tetch of the same meaning": 'meaing' in
original.

Page 228, "[Greek: dioklasianos]": 'dioklalasianos' in original.

Page 233. After `Henry E. Manning' were printed two paragraphs `Shilling
versus Franc.' and `Teutonic Long Hundred 120 versus 100 or the Decimal
question.' These appear to have been set in error, there is no applicable
context.

Page 316, "in a manner depending upon the difference": 'maner' in original.

Page 322, "neither what Newton did, nor what was done before him.": 'not'
(for 'nor') in original.

Page 344, "Victoria toto coelo": 'tolo' in original.

Page 368, "cannot be brought up to 1": 'up to +-' in original.

Page 371, "Q_2=b_2 Q_1+a_2": 'Q_2=b_2 Q_1-a_2' in original.

Note 50, "all who were not in the road to Heaven were excommunicated":
'excomunicated' in original.

Note 372, "[Greek: he alazoneia biou]": 'alaxoneia' in original.

Ibid., "Iapetos": 'Ispetos' in original.

Ibid., "Papeiskos": 'Paspeisoks' in original.

Ibid., "[Greek: dioklasianos]": 'dioklalasianos' in original.

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