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The construction of the wonderful canon of logarithms

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Autore<br />

Logarithmo-<br />

Excudebat<br />

rvm<br />

Propositiones<br />

Terti6,<br />

Ejusque<br />

Barone<br />

1<br />

I40<br />

Catalogue.<br />

ively. <strong>The</strong> reprint, which will be found on pages 475 to 624 <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

sixth volume, gives <strong>the</strong> Descriptio and <strong>the</strong> Canon in full, with <strong>the</strong><br />

Admonitio on its last page.<br />

Graesse states that <strong>the</strong> edition <strong>of</strong> 1614 was "R^impr. sous la m^me<br />

date dans les Transact, <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Roy. Sac." He probably refers to this<br />

reprint as Baron Maseres was a member <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Royal Society.<br />

Libraries. Adv. Ed. :<br />

etc.<br />

Mirifici 1 Canonis Descriptio, usus,<br />

| | |<br />

in utraque Trigonome-|tria ; vt etiam in omni Logistica Ma-|<br />

<strong>the</strong>matica, amplissimi, facillimi,| & expeditissimi explicatio.|<br />

Accesservnt Opera Posthvma ;<br />

Prim6, Mirifici ipsius <strong>canon</strong>is constructio,<br />

& Logarith- 1 morum ad naturales ipsorum numeros habi-<br />

|<br />

tudines. |<br />

Secund6, Appendix de alia, edque praestantiore Logarithmorum<br />

specie construenda. Propositiones quaedam<br />

|<br />

eminentissimae, ad Trian- gula sphaerica mird facilitate resolvenda.<br />

ac Inventore loanne Nepero, Mer-<br />

1<br />

| |<br />

chistonii, &c.<br />

Scoto.|<br />

Edinbvrgi,! Excvdebat Andreas Hart.| Anno iSip.)<br />

[<strong>The</strong> ornamental part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Title-page is <strong>the</strong> same as in 1614, <strong>the</strong> type only being altered.]<br />

4°. Size 7J X 6| inches. [See note.]<br />

Mirifici |<br />

Logarithmorvm Canonis Con- 1 strvctio<br />

| ; [<br />

Et eorum<br />

ad naturales ipsorum numeros habitudines ; |<br />

Vn^ Cvm Appendice,<br />

de alii eaque praestantiore Loga- 1 rithmorum specie con-<br />

|<br />

denda. Qvibvs Accessere ad triangula sphaerica<br />

|<br />

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faciliore calculo resolvenda : Vn4 cum Annotationibus aliquot<br />

|<br />

doctissimi D. Henrici |<br />

Briggii, in eas & memoratam appendicem.|<br />

Authore & Inventore loanne Nepero, Barone Merchistonii,<br />

|<br />

&c. Scoto.<br />

I<br />

Edinbvrgi, I Andreas Hart.|Anno Domini 1619.]<br />

Ai\ Title. Al^, blank. A2, 2 ^a.ges," Lectori Ma<strong>the</strong>seosStuiiiosoS.",sig[LeA<br />

"Robertvs Nepervs, F." A3'-E4^, pp. $-39, " Minfici Logarithmorvm Canonis Constrvctio<br />

;<br />

( Qvi Et Tabvla Artificialis ab autore deinceps appellatur) eortimque ad naturales<br />

ipsorum numeros habitudines." 'Ei^-Y'^, pp. 40-45, ^^ Appendix" containing<br />

"i?« alia eaque prastantiore Logarithmorvm specie construenda; in jua scilicet, vnitalis

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