William Oughtred, a Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics.by Florian Cajori

A history of the logarithmic slide rule

A history of the logarithmic slide rule and allied instruments ; and On the history of Gunter's scale and the slide rule during the seventeenth century

✍ Florian Cajori 📂 Library 📅 1994;1910 🏛 Astragal Press 🌐 English ⚖ 6 MB

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