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A Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms

Translated from Latin to English by Edward Wright (1616).

Title page of the original Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio , published in 1614.

 

 

A
DESCRIPTION
OF THE ADMIRABLE
TABLE OF LOGA-
RITHMES:
WITH A DECLARATION OF
The Most Plentifvl, Easy,
And Speedy Vse thereof in both kindes
 of Trigonometrie, as also in all
Mathematicall calculations.
 

INVENTED ANF PVBLI-
Shed In Latin By That
Honorable John Nepair, Ba-
ron of Merchiston, and transtaled into
English by the late learned and
famous Mathematician
Edward Wright

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