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MOORE, JONAS, Sir. A Mathematical Compendium; or, Useful Practices in Arithmetick, Geometry, and Astronomy, Geography and Navigation [etc.] . . . Explaining the Logarithms, with new Indices; Nepair's [sic] Rods or Bones; Making of Movements, and the Application of Pendulums; with the Projection of the Sphere for an Universal Dyal, &c. . . . Second Edition, with large Additions. Folding engraved perpetual calendar mounted on A1r; folding scale mounted on F5v; folding engraved plate of latitude calculations bound after page 120. [6] (of [24]), 120, [178] (of [180]) pages; lacks 9 preliminaries and final ad leaf. 12mo, contemporary reversed sheep with morocco lettering piece; contents relatively clean. London: Robert Harford, 1681
Handbook of applied mathematics first published in 1674, including instructions for using the elementary mechanical calculating device known as "Napier's Bones," a distant forerunner of the computer, developed in the early 1600s by John Napier, the inventor of logarithms. Wing M2573. This copy interleaved with extensive annotations and diagrams by an early owner, neatly written and drawn.
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