Logarithmotechnia, or The construction and use of the logarithmeticall tables : By the helpe whereof, multiplication is performed by addition, division by subtraction, the extraction of the square root by bipartition, and of the cube root by tripartition, &c. Finally, the golden rule, and the resolution of triangles as well right lined as sphericall by addition and substraction. First published in the French tongue by Edmund Wingate, an English gentleman: and after translated into English by the same author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wingate, Edmund, 1596-1656.

Contributor:

Briggs, Henry, 1561-1630.

Series:

Early English books online

Standardized Title:

Arithmétique logarithmétique. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logarithms--Early works to 1800.

Logarithms.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (8 unnumbered pages, 135 pages, 1 unnumbered page) : illustrations tables

Edition:

The third edition, diligently corrected, and much enlarged by the author himself.

Other Title:

Logarithmotechnia

Construction and use of the logarithmeticall tables

Place of Publication:

London : printed by Miles Flesher, M.DC.XLVIII. [1648]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

A translation of: Arithmétique logarithmétique.

The first three chapters are abridged from: Briggs, Henry. Arithmetica logarithmica.

First word of title in Greek characters.

On last leaf: London, printed by Miles Flesher and are to be sold by Philemon Stephens at his shop at the signe of the Golden Lion in S. Pauls Church-yard. 1648.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2087:08) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing (2nd edition) W3018A

Related Work:

Briggs, Henry, 1561-1630. Arithmetica logarithmica.

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