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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 published in Latin by that honorable L. Iohn Nepair ... ; and translated into English by the late learned and famous mathematician 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 approued by the author, & published since the death of the translator.
Van Pelt - Microtext STC I Reel 1857:7.
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- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Napier, John, 1550-1617.
- Series:
- Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1857:7.
- Standardized Title:
- Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio. English
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Logarithms--Early works to 1800.
- Logarithms.
- Logarithms--Tables.
- Trigonometry--Early works to 1800.
- Trigonometry.
- Genre:
- Tables.
- Tables (Data)
- Physical Description:
- 22 unnumbered pages, 89 pages, 91 unnumbered pages, 8 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates (folded) : illustrations
- 35 mm
- monochrome
- service copy
- positive
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by Nicholas Okes, 1616.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio.
- Signatures: A12(-A10) B-H12 I8(I6+chi1) K2.
- Errata: p. 8 at end.
- Includes: The vse of the triangular table for the finding of the part proportionall / penned by Henry Brigges: p. 1-8 at end.
- Imperfect: signature E11 lacking; signatures E9-F4 from defective Queen's College (University of Cambridge) Library copy spliced at end.
- Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1985. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1857:7) s1985 miun
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd ed.) 18351
- Contains:
- Briggs, Henry, 1561-1630. Vse of the triangular table for the finding of the part proportionall.
- Vse of the triangular table for the finding of the part proportionall.
- Use of the triangular table for the finding of the part proportionall.
- OCLC:
- 25206908
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