Artifact Details

Title

Practical, short, and direct method of calculating the logarithm of any given number, and the number corresponding to any given logarithm

Catalog Number

B1545.01

Type

Document

Description

The last 2 and 24 page sections at the end of the book are advertisements from the publisher of the catalogue of school and college textbooks they offer.

"Presented to the Franklin Insitute, the State of Pennsylvania, by the Author. 3 May 1951" is written in ink on the fourth fly-leaf.

Date

1849

Author

Byrne, Oliver

Publisher

D. Appleton & Company

Place of Publication

New York

Extent

xxiii, 82, 2, 24 p.

Dimensions

overall: 1/2 in x 5 in x 7 1/2 in

Category

Book

Collection Title

Gwen Bell artifact and book collection

Series Title

Algorithms, tables, and history of calculation books

Credit

The Gwen Bell Early Book Collection of Algorithms, Tables, and History of Calculations

Lot Number

X7090.2014