New logarithmes. The first inuention whereof, was, by the Honourable Lo: Iohn Nepair Baron of Marchiston, and printed at Edinburg in Scotland, anno: 1614. In whose vse was and is required the knowledge of albraicall [sic] addition and substraction, according to + and - These being extracted from and out of them (they being first ouer seene, corrected, and amended) require not at all any skill in algebra, or Cossike numbers, but may be vsed by euery one that can onely adde and substract, in whole numbers, according to the common or vulgar arithmeticke, without an consideration or respect of + and - By Iohn Speidell, professor of the mathematickes, and are to bee solde at his dwelling house in the fields, on the back side of Drury Lane, betweene Princes streete and the new play-house.
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[London: printed by E. Allde? for J. Speidell], 1620.
- Publication year
- 1620-1620
- ESTC No.
- S95311
- Grub Street ID
- 153340
- Description
- [122] p. : tables ; 4⁰
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- Place of publication and printer and publisher information from STC.
This and the following have added quires N? [O]? P? [Q]?, w. logarithms of whole numbers 1-1000. The G? copy is erroneously dated 1624 and lacks the additional quires--STC.
Signatures: pi1 B-Q?.Citation/references STC (2nd ed.), 23063.3