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Henry Sherwin

Sherwin’s mathematical tables, contriv’d after a most comprehensive method: Containing, Dr. Wallis’s account of logarithms, Dr. Halley’s and Mr. Sharp’s ways of constructing them; with Dr. Newton’s contraction of briggs’s logarithms, viz. A table of logarithms of the numbers from 1 to 101000, with the means to find readily the logarithm of any number, and the number of any logarithm, to seven places of figures: and tables of natural and logarithmic sines, tangents, secants and versed sines, to every minute of the quadrant: with the explication of use prefixed.

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London: Printed for W. and J. Mount, T. Page, and Son, on Tower-Hill , 1761.
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Sherwin’s mathematical tables, contriv’d after a most comprehensive method: Containing, Dr. Wallis’s account of logarithms, Dr. Halley’s and Mr. Sharp’s ways of constructing them; with Dr. Newton’s contraction of briggs’s logarithms, viz. A table of logarithms of the numbers from 1 to 101000, with the means to find readily the logarithm of any number, and the number of any logarithm, to seven places of figures: and tables of natural and logarithmic sines, tangents, secants and versed sines, to every minute of the quadrant: with the explication of use prefixed. Library Average
Circulation records from 1793-1799 are lost.
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Charles Baldwin10/7/180010/13/1800Sherwins M Tables
Samuel B. Romaine6/23/18047/5/1804Sherwins Tables
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