In 1747 Dodson published "The Calculator … adapted to Science, Business, and Pleasure". It is a large collection of small tables, with some seven-figure logarithms. This he dedicated to William Jones. The same year he started the publication of "The Mathematical Miscellany", containing analytical and algebraic solutions of a large number of problems in various branches of mathematics. His preface to vol. i is dated 14 January 1747, the title giving 1748. This volume is dedicated to Abraham de Moivre, and a second edition was issued by his publisher in 1775. Vol. ii (1753) is dedicated to David Papillon, and contains a contribution by de Moivre. Vol. iii (1755) he dedicated to Macclesfield and the Royal Society. This volume is devoted to problems relating to annuities, reversions, insurances, leases on lives, etc.. His "Accountant, or a Method of Book-keeping", was published 1750, with a dedication to Macclesfield. In 1751 he edited Edmund Wingate's "Arithmetic", which had previously been edited by John Kersey and then by George Shelley.