Re: [HM] Bruhns's Logarithm Tables

Julio Gonzalez Cabillon (jgc@adinet.com.uy)
Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:27:18 -0300

At 09:31 AM 14/04/1999 EDT, James A Landau wrote:
>
> Does anybody have bibliographic data on the following book:
>
> _A New Manual of Logarithms to seven places of decimals_
> edited by Dr. Bruhns Director of the Observatory and Professor
> of Astronomy at Leipzig
> ...
>
> The Preface concludes "Leipzig, August 1869 Dr. C. Bruhns"
>
> One presumes that a book published in Leipzig was written in German. Does
> anyone know when this book was translated into English?
> ...

The author in question is

Carl Christian Bruhns (1830-1881)

The first edition referred to above was published in 1870:

[1] (in German)
"Neues logarithmisch-trigonometrisches Handbuch auf sieben Decimalen",
bearbeitet von Dr. C. Bruhns, Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1870.

[2] (in English)
"A new manual of logarithms to seven places of decimals", edited by
Dr. Bruhns, Sterotype edition, Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1870.

[3] (in Italian)
"Nuovo manuale logaritmico-trigonometrico con sette decimali", opera
del Dre. C. Bruhns, Ed. stereotipa, Lipsia: B. Tauchnitz, 1870.

Julio Gonzalez Cabillon