Chilias Logarithmorum Ad Totidem Numerous Rotundos Praemissa Demonstration Legitima Ortus
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First edition
Marburg: Caspar Chemlin, 1624-1625. First edition, the Macclesfield copy, of Kepler’s logarithmic tables, constructed by means of his own original method. Of the greatest rarity, especially when complete with the correction leaf and the second part, which gives examples of the application of logarithms and details of their construction. It was through the use of these tables that Kepler was able to complete his
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