拍品 679
  • 679

VLACQ, ARITHMETICA LOGARITHMICA, GOUDA, 1628

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描述

  • Arithmetica logarithmica, sive Logarithmorum chiliades centum, pro numeris naturali serie crescentibus ab unitate ad 100000. Una cum canone triangulorum, seu tabula artificialium sinuum, tangentium & secantium ad radium 10,00000,00000. & ad singula scrupula prima quadrantis… Editio secunda. Gouda: Pieter Rammazeyn, 1628
Folio (335 x 235mm.), title printed in red and black, diagrams, letterpress tables, manuscript tables and errata by Edward Sang at end (see note), contemporary vellum, modern folding cloth box, binding somewhat soiled

來源

Thomas Clark, Edinburgh, bookseller’s ticket; Edward Sang, ownership inscription; bought from Bernard Quaritch, London, 1985

出版

Tomash & Williams V20; Henderson pp.55-57 no. 24; Hoogendoorn pp.900-901 Vlacq01; STCN 056502214; see Alex D.D. Craik, "The logarithmic tables of Edward Sang and his daughters" in Historia Mathematica 30 (2003), pp.47-84

Condition

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拍品資料及來源

Edward Sang (1805-1890), to whom this book belonged, was a noted Scottish mathematician who, with the help of his two daughters made logarithmic tables which went beyond those of Briggs, Vlacq and De Prony. For another book from Sang’s library, see lot 351.