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The construction of the wonderful canon of logarithms

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8°. Size inches.<br />

Paging. 16 + 246 numbered + 8.<br />

Ano<strong>the</strong>r Edition.<br />

Gedruckt by Ulderick Balck, Ordi- 1 Landschaps ende<br />

Academise Boecke- 1 Drucker. Anno 1646.<br />

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Paging. 8 + 377 numbered + 11.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se two editions are catalogued by D. Bierens de Hann in his<br />

papers entitled ' BouwstoiFen voor de Geschiedenis der Wis- en Natuurkundige<br />

Wetenschappen in de Nederlanden,' communicated to <strong>the</strong><br />

Amsterdam Academy—Verslag. xii., 1878 (Natuurk.), p. 19.<br />

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Parts <strong>of</strong> Arithmetick,<br />

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As Multiplication, Division, and Ex- 1 <strong>of</strong> Roots<br />

both Square and Cube,<br />

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and Exactness (without any [charge to <strong>the</strong> Memory) by<br />

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Published by W. L.<br />

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London<br />

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Printed for G. Sawbridge, and are to be sold |<br />

at his<br />

House on Clerkenwell-Green, 1667.<br />

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12°. Size 4i X 2| inches. Ai, blank? Ki\ Title-page. Aa", blank.<br />

A3I-A61, 7 pages, " <strong>The</strong> Argument To <strong>The</strong> Reader." h6\ blank. After A62<br />

on a folding sheet is a diagram <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> rods. Bi'-E7^ pp. 1-86, <strong>The</strong> Work.<br />

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1 2 + 86 numbered + 10 = ic8 pages.<br />

<strong>The</strong> author was William<br />

Leyboum, and <strong>the</strong> work contains a short<br />

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