Arifmetika; siriech nauka chislitelnaia. S raznykj dialektov na slavenskii iazyk prevedenaia, i voedino sobrana, i na dvie knigi razdielena. E502

Arifmetika; siriech nauka chislitelnaia. S raznykj dialektov na slavenskii iazyk prevedenaia, i voedino sobrana, i na dvie knigi razdielena. E502

Not Just Another Pretty Math Book... Peter I had a strong interest in developing a school of military engineering and in 1723 merged Moscow's school with the one founded in St. Petersburg in 1719. Equally important to the tsar was a school of mathematics and navigation. With Scottish mathematician and astronomer Henry Farquharson in charge, a syllabus was devised for the school that included arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, astronomy, navigation, geodesy, and related subjects. L.F. Magnitskii manned a staff in the school that included many western scholars, Farquharson among them. Magnitskii himself had already gained fame with publication in 1703 (ours is a later edition) of his Arithmetic, written in Church Slavonic. In spite of the title and its use as a textbook of arithmetic, it was an encyclopedia of mathematics, geodesy, astronomy, and navigation; it was a literary masterpiece that was still being widely read until mid-18th century. Lomonosov called it "the fates of knowledge," and it is considered the most important Russian schoolbook of the early 18th century.

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