Back in the 1880s, the American astronomer Simon Newcomb noticed something strange about the book of logarithmic tables in his library—the earlier pages were much more heavily thumbed than later ...

In the present little book, however, by the consistent employment ... of ordinary intelligence to quickly master the use of logarithmic tables. The tables themselves occupy but six pages, two ...

On the appearance of the first section of this important book, it is appropriate to give some account of the evolution of logarithmic tables. Logarithmetica Britannica: being a Standard Table of ...