John Thomson
Active Years
Min year: 1709, Max year: 1800, Max count: 3As Author
- 1709: The decimal arithmetick, digested into so easie a method, that any that understands the vulgar, arithmetick, may attain the compleat knowledge of the decimals in few days, without a teacher
- 1712: Edinburgh's new almanack, or A prognostication for the year of our Lord 1712, being bissextile or leap year
- 1713: Edinburgh's new almanack; or, A prognostication for the year of our Lord 1713, being the first after bissextile of leap year
- 1714: Edinburgh's new almanack, or A prognostication for the year of our Lord 1714, being the second after bissextile or leap year
- 1715: Edinburgh's new almanack, or A prognostication for the year of our Lord 1715, being the third after bissextile or leap year
- 1725: Defences by way of information for Mr. John Thomson and Charles Auchmoutie
- 1729: An overture presented to the reverend synod of dissenting ministers, sitting in Philadelphia, in the month of September, 1728
- 1732: A specimen of thought upon the gloomy region: or, Polyphemus evaporated: or, a satiri-tragi-comi-poetick hodge-podge and miscellaneous poem, upon the wooden-man in Essex-Street with Interlunary Breathings of Love from Venus, that sovereign Goddess over the Hearts of the fair Sex, nay of both Sexes if you go to that. By John Thomson
- 1732: The tricks of the town: or, ways and means for getting money. Wherein The various Lures, Wiles, and Artifices, practised by the Designing and Crafty upon the Weak and Unwary, are fully exposed. Recommended to the serious perusal of all adventurers and sharers in bubble-undertakings, the Pursuers of Pennyworths, and Bargain-Buyers. Chiefly collected from some papers of the ingenious Mr. John Thomson, scattered between Laurence-Pountney's-Hill and Dover
- 1738: Sir Solomon Gundi, with her Highness the punch-bowl
- 1740: An essay upon the faith of assurance
- 1741: The government of the church of Christ, and the authority of church judicatories established on a Scripture foundation: and the spirit of rash judging arraigned and condemned. Or The matter of difference between the Synod of Philadelphia and the protesting brethren justly and fairly stated
- 1741: The doctrine of convictions set in a clear light, or An examination and confutation of several errors relating to conversion
- 1749: An explication of the Shorter catechism, composed by the Assembly of Divines, commonly called, the Westminster Assembly
- 1761: New and correct tables
- 1765: The presbyterian covenanter displayed, in his political principles; and the impostor detected
- 1768: Tables of interest
- 1771: Tables, shewing both in Scots and Sterling money, the price of any quantity of grain, &c
- 1773: Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of John Thomson tenant in Humbie, and Marion Thomson, wife of William Swinton wright in the Abbay-hill, and him for his interest
- 1774: The Presbyterian covenanter dfended [sic]
- 1774: Stedfastness in the faith explained and recommended
- 1775: Tables of interest
- 1775: Tables of interest
- 1776: Tables of interest
- 1776: Tables of interest, at 3, 4, 4 1/2, and 5 per cent. From 1 to 365 days, in a regular progression of single days, An advantage not to be found in any other of the kind;-and Tables, at all the above rates, from 1 to 12 months, and from 1 to 10 years: Which, by directions given, answer for all other rates, from 1 to 10 per Cent. Also, Tables, shewing the Exchange on Bills, or Commission on Goods, from ? to 3 per Cent. To the whole is prefixed, A Table, shewing the Exchange allowed by the purchaser of a bill payable at a certain number of days or months. By John Thomson, Accomptant in Edinburgh
- 1777: Unto the Right Honourable, the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of John Thomson merchant in Edinburgh
- 1777: Tables, shewing, both in Scots and sterling money, the price of any quantity of grain, &c. from one lippy, or one fourth part of a peck, to a thousand bolls at all the various prices, from L. 3 Scots, or 5 s. Sterling to L. 18 Scots or 30 s. Sterling, each table advancing by 1 s. Scots or 1 d. Sterling per boll; and also at L. 3: 3: 4, L. 3: 6: 8, L. 3: 13: 4, and L. 3: 16: 8, up to L. 12 Scots per boll, and from 4 1/2 to 18 merks, (the prices at which grain is sold in Scotland): With Rules and Examples to make them answer for calculating the price of all sorts of goods sold by Number, Weight, or Measure. Also, Tables, shewing the Price of any number of stones of Hay, loads of Coals, &c. from one to ten thousand, from 3 d. to 1 s. Sterling the stone, load, &c. each Table advancing one farthing. Very useful for Noblemen and Gentlemen, and their Factors; for Farmers, Brewers, and Bakers; and for Merchants and Shopkeepers. By John Thomson Writer in Edinburgh. Together with, A Table reducing English bushels and quarters to the Edinburgh standards or Linlithgow measure, and a Table for reducing the price of the English quarter to the price of the Scots boll of barley or oats, wheat or pease; A comparison of the weights and measures of Scotland with those of England, as regulated by the statutes of both kingdoms now in force; and, Tables of English weights and measures. A new edition, much enlarged
- 1778: Answers for John Thomson musician in Edinburgh
- 1779: National calamity the consequence of national guilt
- 1781: The Christian life a state of trial
- 1782: In the House of Lords. John Thomson, junior, of Leith, merchant, appellant. George Buchanan and others, underwriters of a policy of insurance on the ship Grizzy of Leith, respondents. The appellant's case
- 1783: Tables of interest, at 3, 4, 4 1/2, and 5 percent
- 1784: The universal calculator
- 1785: The grounds of Christian faith
- 1786: Tables of interest
- 1788: Inform. - John Thomson, against James Robertson. December 5. 1788. (Lord Swinton reporter.) Information for John Thomson at Mosshouses, near Howgate, against James Robertson, keeper of the tolbooth of Edinburgh, defender
- 1788: Tables of interest
- 1792: Unto the Right Honourable the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of John Thomson in Connelholm
- 1792: Appendix to the petition for John Thomson in Conelholm, reclaiming against an interlocutor pronounced by the Lord Justice-Clerk, ordinary in the process of advocation at the petitioner's instance
- 1793: The nature of true religion, and its beneficial influence on the character and happiness of man, explained and illustrated: a sermon, preached in the Tron Church of Edinburgh, on the twenty-fifth day of November M,DCC,XCII; for the benefit of the Society in Scotland for Promoting Religious Knowledge Among the Poor. By the Reverend John Thomson,
- 1793: The universal calculator
- 1794: Tables of [i]nterest, at 3, 4, 4 1/2, and 5 per cent
- 1794: Tables of interest
- 1796: An address and warning to seceders
- 1796: An epitome of religion, agreeable to Scripture and reason
- 1797: A few strictures on a late publication by the Reverend George Lawson
- 1798: The letters of Curtius
- 1798: An apology for seceders, shewing, the propriety and consistency of their conduct, in opposing the plain carried on for overturning their principles, and in withdrawing from the ministry of their backsliding leaders
- 1799: Letters addressed to the Rev. John Mason, M.A. of New-York, in answer to his letters on frequent communion
- 1800: Outlines of a plan for the regulation of the surgical department of the Royal Infirmary
- 1800: General view of the agriculture of the county of Fife: with observations on the means of its improvement: drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture & Internal Improvement. By John Thomson, D. D. Minister Of Markinch
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