Arithmetica logarithmica, sive, Logarithmorum chiliades triginta pro numeris naturali serie crescentibus ab unitate ad 20,000, et a 90,000 ad 100,000 : quorum ope multa perficiuntur arithmetica problemata et geometrica : hos numeros primus invenit clarissimus vir Iohannes Neperus baro Merchistonij : eos autem ex eiusdem sententia mutavit, eorumque ortum et vsum illustravit Henricus Briggius, in celeberrima Academia Oxoniensi geometriae professor Savilianus.
Arithmetica logarithmica, sive, Logarithmorum chiliades triginta pro numeris naturali serie crescentibus ab unitate ad 20,000, et a 90,000 ad 100,000 : quorum ope multa perficiuntur arithmetica problemata et geometrica : hos numeros primus invenit clarissimus vir Iohannes Neperus baro Merchistonij : eos autem ex eiusdem sententia mutavit, eorumque ortum et vsum illustravit Henricus Briggius, in celeberrima Academia Oxoniensi geometriae professor Savilianus.
Uniform title
Arithmetica logarithmica
Created/published
Londini : Excudebat Gulielmus Iones, 1624.
Description
[8], 88, [336] p. : ill., coat of arms ; 32 cm (fol.)
Chiefly tables. Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁴ b-m⁴ A-Q⁶ R⁴ 4H⁸ 4I-4Q⁶ *⁶ [par.]⁶; m1 signed 'M'; [par.]6 signed '[par.]4'. "Chilias prima" (caption title) begins an unpaginated section of tables collating A-Q⁶ R⁴ 4H⁸ 4I-O⁶ [star]⁶. "Finis" at foot of [star]6 verso. Some copies do not have the final gathering [par.] Errata: [superscript pi]A4 recto.
Cited/described in
English short title catalogue, S107110 Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 3739
Includes final gathering signed "[par.]" In early leather (calf) inboard binding, rebacked; gilt arms of Henry Stanley of Middlesex on boards. Modern armorial bookplate (motto: Quod tuum tene) of Chetham's Library, "Manchester Library." Booklabel: Erwin Tomash; stamped numbers. Housed in modern folding cloth box. Acquired from Sotheby's auction of The Erwin Tomash Library on the History of Computing (part 1, lot 92), 2018-09-18/19. Purchase made possible by The Charles W. Engelhard Acquisitions Fund.