CONTAINING COMMON, HYPERBOLIC, AND LOGISTIC LOGARITHMS. ALSO SINES, TANGENTS, SECANTS, AND VERSED-SINES, Profeffor of Mathematics in the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. LONDON: PRINTED FOR G. G. J. AND J. ROBINSON, PATERNOSTER-ROW. AND R. BALDWIN, TH PREFACE. HE very ample introduction, prefixed to the following collection of Mathematical Tables, has fuperceded the neceffity of ufing many words here by way of preface, and has left me little more to mention than the neceffity and occafion of this work, with fome account of the contents and mode of execution. The undertaking was occafioned by the extreme incorrectness of the 5th, or laft, edition of Sherwin's once very useful book of tables. Finding, as well from the report of others, as from my own experience, that that edition (to say nothing of the very improper alteration in the form of the table of fines, tangents, and fecants) was fo very incorrectly printed, the errors being multiplied beyond all tolerable bounds, and no dependence to be placed on it for any thing of real practice, I was led to undertake the painful office of preparing a correct edition of another fimilar work. And I was lucky enough to meet with a bookfeller of fufficient spirit to be at the great expence of printing the book, as well as to allow me what I demanded for my trouble in preparing it; which demand however, was nothing adequate to the great labour attending it, |