Sharp, Abraham, 1651-1742
Sharp, Abraham
Abraham Sharp British mathematician
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- 100 1 0 ‡a Sharp, Abraham, ‡d 1651-1742
- 100 1 _ ‡a Sharp, Abraham, ‡d 1651-1742
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Works
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Geometry improv'd : 1. By a large and accurate table of segments of circles, its construction and various uses in the Solution of several difficult Problems. With Compendious Tables for finding a true Proportional Part, and their Use in these or any other Tables; exemplify'd in making out Logarithms or Natural Numbers from them, to sixty Figures, there being a Table of them for all Primes to 1100, true to 61 Figures. 2. A concise treatise of polyedra, or solid bodies of many bases, Both the Regular and others: To which are added Twelve New ones, with various Methods of forming them, and their exact Dimensions in Surds or Species, and in Numbers; Illustrated with Variety of Copper Plates. By A.S. Philomath. | |
Historiæ coelestis britannicæ | |
Sherwin's mathematical tables, contriv'd after a most comprehensive method : containing, Dr. Wallis's account of logarithms, Dr. Halley's and Mr. Sharp's ways of constructing them ; with Dr. Newton's contraction of Brigg's logarithms, viz a table of logarithms of the numbers from 1 to 101000, with the means to find readily the logarithm of any number, and the number of any logarithm, to seven places of figures : and tables of natural and logarithmic sines, tangents, secants and versed sines, to every minute of the quadrant : with the explication and use prefixed. The fourth edition. Carefully revised and corrected, by William Gardiner. |