Interpolated Six-Place Tables of the Logarithms of Numbers and the Natural and Logarithmic Trigonometric Functions. Edited by H. W. Marsh. Pp. xii + 155. (New York: John Wiley and Sons ...

Astronomers prepared tables of trigonometric functions (especially for triangles on a sphere) from ancient times. With the introduction of the printing press, and the rapid decrease in the cost of ...

Table of Logarithms and Anti-logarithms (Four Figures), 1 to 10,000. Arranged by Major-Gen. J. C. Hannyngton. Pp. iv + 41. (London: C. and E. Layton, n.d.). Price 1s ...

Spherical trig requires various multiplications of ... In the 17th Century, men spent months calculating accurate logarithm tables to 8 or 10 decimal places, way more precision than necessary ...