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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.
Contributor:
Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615.
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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