The construction of the wonderful canon of logarithms

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logarithms of the sines for each minute from 89°-90° are given in full,
the last figure being marked off by a point. This is, I believe, the
earliest instance of the decimal point being used in a printed book.
The Admonitio at the end of the Table is wanting.
The two words " and maintaine " in the last line of the first page of
Briggs' preface (A6I) are ruled out in ink in all copies both in this
edition and in that of 1618.
Libraries. Adv. Ed. ; Un. Gl. ; Brit. Mus. Lon.; Bodl.Oxf.; Qu.Col. Oxf.
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Of The Admirable Table Of Loga- 1 rithmes :
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With A Declaration of
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the most Plenti-|full, Easie, and Speedy
vse there- 1 in both kinds of Trigonome- 1 try, as also in all Mathematicall
Calcu- 1 lations. |
Inuented and published in Latine
by that Honourable Lord lohn Nepair, Baron of Marchiston,
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and translated into Eng- |lish by the late learned and famous
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Mathematician, Edward Wright. With an addition of the Instrumentall
Table to finde the part Proportionall, intended by the
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Translator, and described in the end of the|Booke by Henrie
Brigs Geometry- I at Gresham -house in |
London. All
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perused and approued by the Authour, and since
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the death of the Translator.
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Whereunto is added new Rules for
the lease of the Student.]
London, Printed for Simon Waterson.| 1618.
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This edition is really that of 1616 with the title-page cut out and the
above put in its place ; there being also added at the end of the work
(A3i-Aio^, pp. 1-16) "An Appendix to the Logarithmes, shewing the
practise of the
Calculation of Triangles, and also a new and ready way for
the exactfinding out of such lines and Logarithmes as are notprecisely to be
found in the Canons."
One of the copies in the Glasgow University Library has the new
title-page with blank leaf attached, inside of which is placed the sig. A
of the 16 16 edition with its first leaf cut out, and also the new sig. A
(A3-A10) containing the Appendix.
Signatures.