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Now what so pleasing can there be as the speculation of these things, to read and examine such experiments, or if a man be more mathematically given, to calculate, or peruse Napier's Logarithms, or those tables of artificial [3366] sines and tangents, not long since set out by mine old collegiate, good friend, and late fellow-student of Christ Church in Oxford,
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We started learning Logarithms in math, which I remember from Charlie Brown's class last year - score!
slemondropp Diary Entry slemondropp 2004
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"Logarithms and the Animal World," by the Editor of _The Spectator_.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 Various
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As was anticipated by the promoters of the tercentenary celebration of the discovery of Logarithms, to be held next July, the application for tickets has been overwhelming.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 Various
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Of these the most important, besides the few already mentioned, are _Tables of Logarithms_ (1826); _Comparative View of the Various Institutions for the Assurance of Lives_ (1826); _Decline of
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Logarithms; Descartes and Galileo created the analysis of curves, and the science of Dynamics; Leibnitz brought the Differential Calculus;
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various
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In the mathematics, the course of study will include arithmetic, use and construction of Logarithms, Algebra, Geometry, Trigometry, with their application to surveying, Navigation, etc.
North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History Charles Lee 1915
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If he is still not satisfied I refer him to a book of Logarithms.
My Discovery of England Stephen Leacock 1906
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This will contain Problems worked out in the dark, Logarithms without
The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) Stuart Dodgson Collingwood 1903
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But the object of his highest admiration was the thick book, on the first page of which was written "Table of Logarithms," and which from the first page to the last contained nothing but figures -- figures in long, close rows, the mere sight of which made him giddy.
Dame Care Hermann Sudermann 1892
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