A compendium of algebra [electronic resource] : consisting of plain, easie and concise rules for the speedy attaining to that art, exemplified by various problems, with the solution of their æquations in numbers, by a new and general method of resolving all kind of æquations, both pure and adfected, with great ease and expedition, very different from all others yet extant, applied to squaring the circle, making of sines, tangents, secants and logarithms with great facility : also an appendix concerning compound-interest and annuities / by John Ward ..