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    Historical math and astronomy tables, LOCOMAT, 7-place cylindrical slide rule
    From: Peter Monta
    Date: 2015 Jun 15, 03:06 -0700
    Just to respond briefly to the recent messages on haversine tables:  there's a nice resource for historical math and astronomy tables called LOCOMAT available here:

    http://locomat.loria.fr/

    including digital reproductions of many of the classic tables.  The "census" link has a very long list, with nautical almanacs listed near the end of the page for almost every year and country of origin.  Links are provided to digital copies at Google Books and gallica.bnf.fr.  (Shameless plug: the maintainer/curator, Denis Roegel, includes a link to my analysis and scans of the Briggs 1617 log table.  woot!)

    He also has a recent paper (March 2015) on a 7-place cylindrical slide rule of length 2000 meters, with descriptions of previous cylindrical rules such as the Fuller, Otis King, Thacher, and several others I'd never heard of:

    http://locomat.loria.fr/locomat/tools.html

    Several thousand pages of scales included.  Some assembly required.

    Cheers,
    Peter

       
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