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Articles and books explaining tablemaking (Only free and online works are given)

• Anonymous: Tables des logarithmes népériens de Zacharius Dase, Nouvelles annales de mathématiques 1ere série, tome 13, 1854, pp. 115-117
• Amulya Kumar Bag: Sine table in ancient India
• Johann Bernoulli (ed): Johann Heinrich Lamberts deutscher gelehrter Briefwechsel, volume 4 (1784), volume 5 (1787)
• Johann Bernoulli: Analyse de l'opus palatinum de Rheticus et du thesaurus mathematicus de Pitiscus, 1786
• Maarten Bullynck: A History of factor tables with notes on the birth of number theory 1657–1817
• Maarten Bullynck: Decimal periods and their tables: A research topic (1765-1801)
• Maarten Bullynck: Mathematical tables and other ways to Gauss and computation
• August Leopold Crelle: Wie eine Tafel der untheilbaren Factoren der Zahlen bis zu beliebiger Höhe möglichst leicht und sicher aufzustellen sei, Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 51(1), 1856, pp. 61-99
• Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre: Histoire de l'astronomie ancienne, volume 1, volume 2, 1817
• Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre: Histoire de l'astronomie du Moyen Âge, 1819
• Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre: Histoire de l'astronomie moderne volume 1, volume 2, 1821
• Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre: Histoire de l'astronomie au dix-huitième siècle, 1827
• Bryan Dorner: Chord tables of Hipparchus and Ptolemy
• J. W. L. Glaisher: Report of the committee on mathematical tables, 1873
• J. W. L. Glaisher: On factor tables, with an account of the mode of formation of the factor table for the fourth million, 1878
• Bernard R. Goldstein: The astronomical tables of Judah ben Verga
• Charles Hutton: Mathematical tables, 1785
• David A. King and Julio Samsó: Astronomical handbooks and tables from the Islamic World (750-1900): an interim report, Suhayl, volume 2, 2001
• Derrick Henry Lehmer: Guide to tables in the theory of numbers, 1941
• MTAC articles; see also here
• Ray D. Murphy and Percy C. H. Papps: Construction of mortality tables from the records of insured lives, 1922
• Louis-Amélie Sédillot: Prolégomènes des tables astronomiques d'Oloug-Beg, 1847
• Louis-Amélie Sédillot: Prolégomènes des tables astronomiques d'Oloug-Beg, 1853 (also here and here)
• Glen Van Brummelen: The numerical structure of Al-Khalili's auxiliary tables, 1988
• Stephan Weiss: Slonimsky's multiplying device, an impressive example for applied mathematics
• Michio Yano: Three types of Hindu sine tables

Web pages related to digital mathematics, tablemaking and mechanical computing

• DML: Digital Mathematics Library
• HTN: Research project on the history of numerical tables (Paris)
• www.mechrech.info: Stephan Weiss' site on mechanical computation
• Rechnerlexikon: dictionary of computing
• Rechenschieber: slide rules
• Stephan Weiss: Difference engines in the 20th century, 2010

Islamic astronomical tables

• Zij (astronomical table)
• A List of Islamic astronomical tables
• The Zij-i Sultani astronomical table
• The Zij-i Ilkhani astronomical table
• Jan P. Hogendijk: The qibla table in the Ashrafi Zij, 1994
• Benno van Dalen: A second manuscript of the Mumtahan Zij, Suhayl 4, 2004

Last update: D. Roegel, October 23, 2013

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