Logarithmologia: Of The Whole Doctrine of Logarithms, Common and Logistical, in Theory and Practice |
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Page iii - I find very few of thofe who make confiant ufe' of logarithms, to have attained an adequate notion of them, to know how to make or examine them, or to underftand the extent of the ufe of them; contenting themfelves with the tables of them, as they find them, without daring to queftion them, or caring to know how to reclify them, ihould they be found amifs ; being, I fuppofe, under the apprehenfion of fome great difficulty therein.
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| Title | Logarithmologia: Of The Whole Doctrine of Logarithms, Common and Logistical, in Theory and Practice |
| Author | Benjamin Martin |
| Publisher | J. Hodges, 1740 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jun 27, 2007 |
| Length | 62 pages |
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