Short, but yet plain elements of geometry shewing how by a brief and easie method, most of what is necessary and useful in Euclid, Archimedes, Appollonius, and other excellent geometricians, both ancient and modern, may be understood / written in French by F. Ignat. Gaston Pardies. And render'd into English, by John Harris.

  • Pardies, Ignace Gaston, 1636-1673.
Date:
1734
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Credit: Short, but yet plain elements of geometry shewing how by a brief and easie method, most of what is necessary and useful in Euclid, Archimedes, Appollonius, and other excellent geometricians, both ancient and modern, may be understood / written in French by F. Ignat. Gaston Pardies. And render'd into English, by John Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    laborious a Work, as one would think to be infu- perable. For we know that above 20 Men were en- _ gaged in fuch a Calculation, for above 20 Years to- gether, with indefatigable Induftty and Affiduity. [Pardie (Peaks here a little covertly, feeming wil- ling to infinuate that this moft ufeful and admirable Work was done firft in bis own Countr , whereas the Logarithms were the Invention of my Lord Neper, a Scotch Baron, and the firft Tables were calculated by bim with the Affiftance of our Countryman, Mr. Henry Briggs. ] | Of late féveral Tmprovements have been made in this Matter : As by Nichocas Mercator, of which fee Dr. Wallis’s Thoughts, in PZihfoph, Tranfaët. 38. John Gregory hath given us a Way to find Loga- rithms to 25 Places, by help of the Hyperbola, But Dottor Halley, iz Philof. Tranf. N° 216. hews 4 Way from the bare Confideration of Numbers, and withal by the Help of Mr. Newton's Way to find the Unciz of the Numbers of a Binomial Power, &c, By which you may find compendioufly the Loga- rithms of all Nuubers to above 50 Places. And he ives there feveral Series for this Purpofe, fome uni- verfal, and fome appropriated to a peculiar fort of Logarithias. ety & AMODEUS 4 ELE.