Sherwin's mathematical tables, contriv'd after a most comprehensive method: containing, Dr. Wallis's account of logarithms, Dr. Halley's and Mr. Sharp's ways of constructing them; with Dr. Newton's contraction of Brigg's logarithms, viz. A Table of Logarithms of the Numbers from 1 to 101000, with the means to find readily the Logarithm of any Number, and the Number of any Logarithm, to seven places of Figures: and Tables of natural and logarithmic Sines, Tangents, Secants, and Versed-Sines, to every minute of the Quadrant: with the explication and use prefix'd. The third edition. Carefully revised and corrected, by William Gardiner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sherwin, Henry.

Standardized Title:

Mathematical tables.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logarithms--Early works to 1800.

Logarithms.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([10],46,64,[308]p.,plates )

Place of Publication:

London : printed for William Mount and Thomas Page, at the Postern on Tower-Hill, M,DCC,XLII. [1742]

Notes:

Dedication signed: Hen. Sherwin, who edited the work.

With separate half-titles for the tables.

A reissue of the 1741 edition with the imprint date reset.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T143742.

OCLC:

642432657