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Briggs, Henry (1561-1630)3
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Napier, John (1550-1617)3
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Gardiner, William (1752)2
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Logarithmicall arithmetike : Or Tables of logarithmes for absolute numbers from an unite to 100000; as also for sines, tangentes and secantes for every minute of a quadrant: with a plaine description of their use in arithmetike, geometrie, geographie, astronomie, navigation, &c

Vlacq, Adriaan; Briggs, Henry (1561-1630); Napier, John (1550-1617)

1631

Signatures: A-H⁴, A-Z⁶, Aa-Zz⁶, Aaa-Rrr⁶, Sss⁴ (last verso blank). Title vignette (printer's device). The tables are those of Vlacq's Arithmetica logarithmica, Gouda, 1628, which was bas...

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Joh. Kepleri, mathem. cæs. & Jacobi Bartschi Tabulæ manuales logarithmicæ ad calculum astronomicum, in specie Tabb. Rudolphinarum compendiose tractandum mire utiles : Ob defectum prioris editionis saganensis multum hactenus desideratæ

Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630); Bartsch, Jacob (1600?-1633); Eisenschmidt, Johann Caspar (1656-1712)

1700

The tables are divided into 5 groups. Groups 1-4 have half-title: Illustr. Neperi Scoti Canonis mirifici trigonometrici pars I.[-III.] Canon manualis logarith & antilogarithmorum semicirculi... et tam...

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Logarithmo-technia, sive, Methodus construendi logarithmos nova, accurata, & facilis : scripto antehàc communicata, anno sc. 1667, nonis Augusti. Cui nunc accedit, Vera quadratura hyperbolae, & Inventio summae logarithmorum

Mercator, Nicolaus (1620-1687); Ricci, Michelangelo (1614-1682)

1668

First edition. The "Exercitatio" has separate pagination and a separate title-page placed between F1 and F2. The last two pages, 13-14, of the second part, are numbered 12-13, in the wrong corner....

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Tafeln der Additions- und Subtractions-logarithmen für sieben Stellen

Zech, Julius August Christoph (1821-1864)

1849

"Aus der Vega-Hülsse'schen sammlung besonders abgedruckt."

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Tables de logarithmes : contenant les logarithmes des nombres, depuis 1 jusqu'à 102100, & les logarithmes des sinus & des tangentes, de 10 en 10 secondes, pour chaque degré du quart de cercle avec différentes autres tables, publiées ci-devant en Angleterre

Gardiner, William (1752); Pezenas P (1692-1776); Dumas, Jean Baptiste André (1800-1884); Blanchard, Jean-Baptiste-Xavier Duchesne (1731-1797)

1770

"A reprint of Gardiner's tables with an addition to the logarithmic trigonometrical part. The editors withheld their names but Lalande has recorded them as Pézénas, Dumas and Blanchard, who were all...

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An account of the life, writings, and inventions of John Napier, of Merchiston

Erskine, David Steuart earl of Buchan (1742-1829); Minto, Walter (1753-1796)

1787

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