In 1742 a seven-figure table was published in quarto form by Gardiner,
which is celebrated on account of its accuracy and of the elegance of
the printing. A French edition, which closely resembles the original,
was published at Avignon in 1770.
In 1783 appeared at Paris the first edition of François Callet's
tables, which correspond to those of Hutton in England. These tables,
which form perhaps the most complete and practically useful collection
of logarithms for the general computer that has been published, passed
through many editions.
In 1794 Vega published his _Thesaurus logarithmorum completus_, a
folio volume containing a reprint of the logarithms of numbers from
Vlacq's _Arithmetica logarithmica_ of 1628, and _Trigonometria
artificialis_ of 1633. The logarithms of numbers are arranged as in an
ordinary seven-figure table. In addition to the logarithms reprinted
from the _Trigonometria_, there are given logarithms for every second
of the first two degrees, which were the result of an original
calculation. Vega devoted great attention to the detection and
correction of the errors in Vlacq's work of 1628. Vega's _Thesaurus_
has been reproduced photographically by the Italian government. Vega
also published in 1797, in 2 vols. 8vo, a collection of logarithmic
and trigonometrical tables which has passed through many editions, a
very useful one volume stereotype edition having been published in
1840 by Hülsse. The tables in this work may be regarded as to some
extent supplementary to those in Callet.
If we consider only the logarithms of numbers, the main line of
descent from the original calculation of Briggs and Vlacq is Roe, John
Newton, Sherwin, Gardiner; there are then two branches, viz. Hutton
founded on Sherwin and Callet on Gardiner, and the editions of Vega
form a separate offshoot from the original tables. Among the most
useful and accessible of modern ordinary seven-figure tables of
logarithms of numbers and trigonometrical functions may be mentioned
those of Bremiker, Schrön and Bruhns. For logarithms of numbers only
perhaps Babbage's table is the most convenient.[12]
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