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Recommends printed tables for squaring, cubing, extracting the square or cubic root - small rods for multiplication and division - discusses an arithmetric machine

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RBO/4/52
Earliest possible date
7 May 1673
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Robert Hooke

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Robert Hooke, 'Concerning Arithmetick Instruments' brought in by Robert Hooke, 7 May 1673, RBO/4/52, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_4_52/concerning-arithmetick-instruments-brought-in-by-robert-hooke, accessed on 16 February 2025

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