A description of the admirable table oe logarithmes : with a declaration of the most plentiful, easy, and speedy vse thereof in both kindes of trigonometrie, as also in all mathematicall calculations / invented and pvblished in Latin by that honorable L. Iohn Nepair, Baron of Marchiston, and translated into English by the late Edward Wright ; with an addition of an instrumentall table to finde the part proportionall, inuented by the translator, and described in the end of the booke by Henry Brigs ; all perused and approved by the author & published since the death of the translator.

Format:

• Microformat

Author/Creator:

• Napier, John, 1550-1617.

Contributor:

• Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615.

Standardized Title:

• Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio. English

Language:

• English
• Latin

Subjects (All):

• Logarithms--Early works to 1800.
• Logarithms.
• Trigonometry--Early works to 1800.
• Trigonometry.

Physical Description:

• 22 unnumbered pages, 89 pages, 90 unnumbered pages, 8 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm
• 6x9 in.
• monochrome
• service copy
• positive

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by Nicholas Okes, 1616.

Notes:

• Translation of: Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio.
• The vse of the triangular table for the finding of the part proportionall / penned by Henry Briggs: 8 p. at end.
• Micro-opaque. New York : Readex Microprint, 1980. 3 cards ; 23 x 15 cm. (Landmarks II)

Contains:

Briggs, Henry, 1561-1630. Vse of the triangular table for the finding of the part proportionall.

OCLC:

9128444