The construction of the wonderful canon of logarithms

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Appendix. 155
description of the rods, with examples of their use in multiplication,
division, and the extraction of square and cube roots.
Libraries. Un. Ed. ; Brit. Mus. Lon. (2)
; Lambeth Pal. Lon.
Another Edition.
London, printed by T. B. for H. Sawbridge, at the |
Bible on
Ludgate-Hill. 1685.
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Libraries. Un. Ab. ; Brit. Mus. Lon.
Nepper's Rechenstabchen, als Hiilfsmittel bei d. Multiplication
u. Division d. Zahlen- u. Decimalbriiche ; hrsgg. v. F. A.
Netto. Mit 100 Rechenstabchen, Dresd. 181 5. Arnold. 18^.
This entry is copied from C. G. Kayser's Vollstandiges Biicher-Lexicon
(1750-1832), published at Leipsic in 1835. The work apparently
treats of ' Napier's Bones.'
Trigonometrie,
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Povr Resovdre Tovs Triangles
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Rectilignes |
Et Spheriqves. |
Avec Les Demonstrations Des
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deux celebres Propositions du Baron de Merchiston, |
non encores
demonstrees. |
Dedide A Messire Robert Kar,
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Comte
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d'Ancrame, Gentil-homme de la Chambre du Roy de la Grand'
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Traits De La
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Bretagne.
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A Paris, |
Chez Nicolas et lean de la Coste, au S.
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Hilaire, k I'Escu de Bretagne, & en leur a la petite
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porta du Palais |
deuant les Augustins. |
M. Avec
Privilege Du Roy.
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8°. Size 6J X 3J inches. ai^,-i4^, 20 pages, Preliminary matter. ai^-p2^,
pp. 1-116, '^ Des Triangles Rectilignes." Al'-Y4S pp. I-193 [175] "Des
Triangles Spheriqves." Y42, woodcut.
In the first part, on a folio sheet facing p. 68, is a table of ' Racines de 10' and of
their logarithms.
Pa^n^. 20+116 numbered + (193-18 for error=) 175 numbered+l = 3i2 pages.
Signatures,
y 2
Errors
a in 4, e in 2 & iin 4 + a to o in4 & p in 2 + A to Y in 4= 156 leaves.