De Sectore Et Radio The Description And Use Of The Sector In Three Bookes The Description And Use Of

by Edmund Gunter

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First edition

London: William Jones, 1623. / First edition, extremely rare complete as here, of Gunter's book on the sector, together with the second edition of his Canon triangulorum the first published table of logarithms of sines and tangents , accompanied by a brass sector made to Gunter's design by Elias Allen c. 1630. The work introduced logarithms into the science of navigation, proposed the first traverse table of the modern type, and described the

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