Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, Surveying and TablesGinn & Company, 1897 - Logarithms |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, Surveying and Tables |
| Author | George Albert Wentworth |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Ginn & Company, 1897 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2007 |
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