1756 - Barlow, P.

Barlow, P. New Mathematical Tables. Containing the factors, squares, cubes, square roots, cube roots, reciprocals, and hyperbolic logarithms of all numbers from 1 to 10,000; tables of powers and prime numbers; an extensive table of formulae, or general synopsis of the most important particulars relating to the doctrines of equations, series, fluxions, fluents, etc., etc., etc. London, Robinson 1814. V pp., 1 leaf, LXI pp., 1 leaf, 336 pp. Contemporary half-leather. First edition. — Poggendorff I, 102. DNB III, 223: “A vast mass of accurate and highly useful numerical information.” Sotheran 5994: “Unprecedented both for their scope and accuracy.” Prof. de DSB I, 459: “The Tables… were so accurate and were deemed so useful that a large portion of them was reprinted and distributed by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (the last reprint was in 1947)”. Hill 10. — Compiled by the British mathematician and physicist Peter Barlow (1776–1862), the inventor of the Barlow wheel and the Barlow lens. — Evenly and lightly browned, with very occasional brown spots. - From the Turner Collection, with the corresponding donation label on the endpaper. - ╔Included: Ibid.╗ Barlow’s Tables of Squares, Cubes, Square Roots, Cube Roots, Reciprocals of All Integer Numbers up to 10,000. Stereotype ed. examined and corrected. London, Taylor and Walton 1840. IV pp., 2 leaves, 200 pp. Smooth calfskin binding of the period, stamped “Taylor & Walton, Upper Gower Street” (worn, somewhat stained). - Hill 10. - University College London prize volume bearing its gold-stamped supralibros on both covers and the college’s steel-engraved donation label, signed in 1844 by the famous Augustus De Morgan (1806–1871), who had been appointed to a chair in 1828 at the university, which had been founded two years earlier. Later owned by Charles Turner (1886–1973), who bequeathed his valuable collection of mathematical, physical, and astronomical literature to Keele University.