Book, Barlow's Tables of Squares Cubes Square Roots and Reciprocals of All Integer Numbers Up to 12,500
date: label: date made
content: 1941
name: label: maker
content: Comrie, Leslie John
notes: label: Description
content: Some mathematical tables have a long history In 1814, Peter Barlow of the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich near London prepared a book of tables of factors, squares, cubes, square roots, reciprocals and hyperbolic logarithms of all integers from 1 to 10,000. A second version of the tables, edited by Augustus De Morgan of University College, London, appeared in 1840, and was republished regularly in the following decades. By the 1920s, the stereo plates from this edition were showing wear and the long popularity of the volume made it possible for publishers to consider resetting the work in modern type. The work of doing this was undertaken by the New Zealand-born mathematician and astronomer Leslie J. Comrie, aided by contemporary computing machines. Comrie would edit a fourth edition of Barlow’s tables in 1941.
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content: This example of the publication was owned by the German- American statistician, mathematician and computer pioneer Carl Hammer (1914-2004).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Mathematical Charts and Tables
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Carl Hammer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.3105.20
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content: 1988.3105
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content: 1988.3105.20
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.1 cm x 15 cm x 22 cm; 13/16 in x 5 29/32 in x 8 21/32 in