A treatise of the construction of logarithms: to which are added, tables of logarithms, sines and tangents. From the encyclopaedia

[ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA]

Verlag: Printed by Thomas Dobson, Philadelphia, 1802

Beschreibung

71pp, [1]. Uncut in original publisher's powder-blue paper boards, later rebacked with cream paper. Boards rubbed. Hinges exposed, book-label of Erwin Tomash to FEP, early inked ownership/gift inscriptions to FFEP, foxed. The entry for logarithms as used in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (Edinburgh, 1768-71), which was loosely edited (but largely pirated) by Thomas Dobson and issued in America as the eighteen-volume Encyclopaedia. The work was issued in weekly numbers between 1790 and 1797, with the complete work only published in 1798; the published, who had suffered a catastrophic fire in 1793, printed a number of the entries and sold them separately, sometimes augmented, as is the case here, with plates or tables. From the recently dispersed library of Erwin Tomash (1921-2012), American engineer recognised for his early pioneering work with computer equipment peripherals. His library consisted of over 3,000 books and manuscripts relevant to the history of computation, from medieval and renaissance works on arithmetic, finger-reckoning and the abacus, to the birth in the twentieth century of theoretical and practical computer science under Alan Turing. Tomash E 9. Size: Quarto. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers AQ22506

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Titel: A treatise of the construction of logarithms...

Verlag: Printed by Thomas Dobson, Philadelphia

Erscheinungsdatum: 1802

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: First edition.