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A64224 Thesaurarium mathematicae, or, The treasury of mathematicks containing variety of usefull practices in arithmetick, geometry, trigonometry, astronomy, geography, navigation and surveying ... to which is annexed a table of 10000 logarithms, log-sines, and log-tangents / by John Taylor. Taylor, John, mathematician. 1687 (1687) Wing T534; ESTC R23734 190,995 514

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