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Tables of logarithms of all numbers, from 1 to 101000; and of the sines and tangents to every second of the quadrant. By Michael Taylor ... With a preface and precepts for the explanation and use of the same, by Nevil Maskelyne ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Michael, 1756-1789.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Logarithms--Early works to 1800.
- Logarithms.
- Trigonometry--Tables--Early works to 1800.
- Trigonometry.
- Mathematics--Tables--Early works to 1800.
- Mathematics.
- Genre:
- Mathematical models.
- Tables (Data)
- Physical Description:
- 8 p.l., 64, [436] p. diagrs. 35 x 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London, Printed by Christopher Buckton, Great Pulteney Street; and sold by Francis Wingrave, bookseller, successor to Mr. Nourse in the Strand, 1792.
- Contents:
- Preface / Neil Maskelyne
- The explanation and use of logarithmic tables
- [I.] A table of the logarithms of numbers
- [II.] A table of logarithmic sines and tangents to every second of the quadrant.
- Notes:
- With a preliminary list of subscribers.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Front flyleaf recto inscribed "Price 4 Guineas, [?]."
- Athenaeum copy: Title page inscribed "Henry Vanoleck for the [?] of this ship [?] worth."
- Cited in:
- ESTC T146693
- OCLC:
- 2408260
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