Institutio mathematica, or, A mathematical institution shewing the construction and use of the naturall and artificiall sines, tangents, and secants in decimal numbers, and also of the table of logarithms in the general solution of any triangle, whether plain or spherical, with their more particular application in astronomie, dialling, and navigation / by John Newton.
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Institutio mathematica, or, A mathematical institution shewing the construction and use of the naturall and artificiall sines, tangents, and secants in decimal numbers, and also of the table of logarithms in the general solution of any triangle, whether plain or spherical, with their more particular application in astronomie, dialling, and navigation / by John Newton.
Author
Newton, John, 1622-1678.
Publication
London :: Printed by R. & W. Leybourn, for George Hurlock ... and Robert Boydel ...,
1654.
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Subject terms
Geometry -- Early works to 1800.
Trigonometry -- Early works to 1800.
Logarithms.
Mathematics -- Problems, exercises, etc.
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"Institutio mathematica, or, A mathematical institution shewing the construction and use of the naturall and artificiall sines, tangents, and secants in decimal numbers, and also of the table of logarithms in the general solution of any triangle, whether plain or spherical, with their more particular application in astronomie, dialling, and navigation / by John Newton." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A52264.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2025.
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