A help to calculation. Or two tables: the one of decimal numbers, and the other of their logarithms, for the ready converting of sexagenary tables into decimal, and the contrary.

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Author: John Newton (1622-1678) Year: 1657 Publisher: Printed by Joseph Moxon Place: London Description: 100+[4] pages with tables and title within ruled boarder. Small quarto (7 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in 20th century half green morocco with gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards. (Thomash Williams N33; Wing N1060) First edition. John Newton remained loyal to the king during the protectorate, and supported himself by his eminent skill in mathematics and astronomy. At the Restoration he obtained the degree of D.D., and was in 1661 made king's chaplain and rector of Ross in Herefordshire, where he died on 25 Dec. 1678. He was appointed canon of Hereford in 1673, and held the rectory of Upminster in Essex from 1662. He was the author of several works on arithmetic and astronomy, designed to facilitate the use of decimal notation and logarithmic methods. He was also an advocate of educational reform in grammar schools; he protested against the narrowness of the system which taught Latin and nothing else to boys ignorant of their mother tongue; and complained that hardly any grammar-school masters were competent to teach arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy. With the object of supplying the means of teaching a wider and more practical curriculum, he wrote school-books on these subjects, and also on logic and rhetoric. The following is a list of his works in chronological order; they are all in English: 1. 'Institutio Mathematica.' Decimal tables of natural sines, tangents, and s

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