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Trigonometry - Tables - Early works to 1800

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    Sherwin's mathematical tables, contriv'd after a most comprehensive method Containing, Dr. Wallis's account of logarithms, Dr. Halley's and Mr. Sharp's ways of constructing them; with Dr. Newton's contraction of briggs's logarithms, viz. A table of logarithms of the numbers from 1 to 101000, with the means to find readily the logarithm of any number, and the number of any logarithm, to seven places of figures: and tables of natural and logarithmic sines, tangents, secants and versed sines, to every minute of the quadrant: with the explication of use prefixed.

    | Date: M,DCC,LXI. [1761]

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