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(1) THIS part, the seventh to be issued, contains the logarithms of numbers from 70,000 to 80,000, leaving two parts still to appear. There are some interesting reproductions to illustrate the relation of Henry Briggs to Napier's “Constructio Canonis”.
(1) Logarithmetica Britannica:
being a Standard Table of Logarithms to Twenty Decimal Places. By Dr. Alexander John Thompson. Part 7: Numbers 70,000 to 80,000. (Issued by the Biometric Laboratory, University of London, to commemorate the Tercentenary of Henry Briggs' publication of the ” Arithmetica Logarithmica”, 1624.) (Tracts for Computers, No. 20.) Pp. vi + 102. (London: Cambridge University Press, 1935.) 15s. net.
(2) Tables of the Higher Mathematical Functions
Computed and compiled under the direction of Harold T. Davis. Vol. 2. (Published as a Contribution of the Waterman Institute for Scientific Research, Indiana University.) Pp. xiii + 391. (Bloomington, Ind.: The Principia Press, Inc., 1935.) n.p.
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M.-T., L. [Short Notices]. Nature 139, 461 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139461a0
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