 | John Aikin - 1812 - 466 pages
...science. On the establishment of Gresham-college, he was chosen, in 1596, its first geometry professor. About this time he constructed a table for finding...instrument described in Gilbert's work " De Magnete." The The new invention of logarithms, however, was the subject which chiefly occupied his thoughts; and... | |
 | John Aikin - 1812 - 462 pages
...science. On the establishment of Gresham-college, he was chosen, in 1596, its first geometry professor. About this time he constructed a table for finding...latitude from an observation of • the variation of the com pass, by an instrument described in Gilbert's work " De Magnete." The new invention of logarithms,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1812 - 468 pages
...science. On the establishment of Gresham-college, he was chosen, in 1596, its first geometry professor. About this time he constructed a table for finding...latitude from an observation of the variation of the com pass, by an instrument described in Gilbert's work " De Magnete." The new invention of logarithms,... | |
 | Arthur Jewitt - 1817 - 592 pages
...science. On the establishment of Gresham College, he was chosen, in 1596, its first Geometry Professor. About this time he constructed a table for finding the latitude from ав observation of the variation of the compass, by an instrument described in Gilbert's work, " De... | |
 | John Gorton - 1833 - 820 pages
...mathematics, and when Gresham college was established in London, was appointed the first geometry professor. About this time he constructed a table for finding...from an observation of the variation of the compass. In 1615 he was engaged on the subject of eclipses and dir noble invention of logarithms, then recently... | |
 | John Crabtree - 1836 - 602 pages
...mathematics, and when Gresham college was established in London, was appointed the first geometry professor. About this time he constructed a table for finding...from an observation of the variation of the compass. In 1 615 he was engaged on the subject of eclipses and the noble invention of logarithms, then recently... | |
 | 1838 - 1056 pages
...mathematics, and when Gresham College was established in London, was appointed the first geometry professor. About this time he constructed a table for finding...from an observation of the variation of the compass. In 1615 he was engaged on the subject of eclipses and the invention of logarithms, then recently discovered,... | |
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... by an instrument described in Gilbert's work " De Magnete." The new invention of logarithms, however, was the subject which chiefly occupied his thoughts; and in his lectures at Gresham. college he proposed an alteration of their scale from the form... 