The construction of the wonderful canon of logarithms

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Catalogue. 147
Signatu7-es. As in 1616 edition 105 leaves + A, in eight (commencing with A3 and
ending with A 10), = 113 leaves.
Paging. As in 1616 edition 210 pages+ 16 numbered=226.
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The Wonderful Canon Of Logarithms or the First Table Of
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Logarithms with a full description of their ready use and easy]
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application, both in plane and spherical trigone- |metry, as also
in all mathematical calculations.
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and published
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by
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John Napier, of Merchiston, etc., a native of Scotland,
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A.D. 1614. 1 Re-translated from the Latin text, and enlarged with
a table of [hyperbolic logarithms to all numbers from i to I20i.|
By Herschell Filipowski.
Published for the Editor] By W. H. Lizars 3 St. James'
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Square, Edinburgh.] 1857.
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16*. Size B^x3| inches. al^ Title, ai^, blank. a2^ " This edition is inscribed
to William Thomas Thomson, Esq " a2^, blank. A3, pp. v and
vi, Dedication to Prince Charles, signed " lohn Nepair." a*, pp. vii. and viii., The
Author's preface, as^-a6^, pp. ix-xii, " The Preface To The Reader By Henry
Briggs." a7'-bi2, pp. xiii-xviii, " Translator's Preface." b2^, p. xix, iVoto.
hz^. Errata. A1I-B42, pp. 1-24, Book I. '&/i^-Yi^\ pp. 24-71, Book II. F42,
"Note to Table II. by the Translator." Ai'-Fe^, 92 pages, " Table I., Napier's
Logarithms of Sines.", the title occupies the first page, the last is blank, and the
table occupies the intervening 90, F7''-G8^, 20 pages, " Tc^le II., Napier's
Logarithms to Numbers, called also Hyperbolic Logarithms, from I'd to 1200.", on
first page is the title, then follow the table occupying 18 pages, and on the last page
is printed "END " within an ornamental device.
Signatures,
= 102 leaves.
Paging.
[a] in 8 + b in 2, + A, B, C and E in eights + F in four + A to G in eights
XX numbered + 72 numbered + 112 = 204 pages.
The numbers and logarithms in Table I. are those of the Canon of
1614, each divided by 10,000,000, so that the logarithms are strictly to
base e-^ The Admonitio at the end of the Table is wanting. The
logarithms in Table II. are to base e.
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