Hutton, Charles; Mathematical Tables; Containing the Common, Hyperbolic, and Logistic Logarithms, Also contains sines, tangents, secants and versed sines both natural and logarithmic. Together with several other tables useful in mathematical calculations. To which is prefixed a large and original history of the discoveries and writing relating to those subjects; with the complete description and use of the tables.To which is prefixed, a Large and Original History of the Discoveries and Writings Relating to those Subjects. London, G and J Robinson and R Baldwin, !st edition, 1785. Quarto, pp. xi, errata, 176, 343 pages of table. In recent calf with gilt titles. Light to moderate toning to some tables, very good.

Charles Hutton (August 14, 1737 January 27, 1823) was an English mathematician born at Newcastle-on-Tyne. He originally began teaching at Stotes Hall and studied mathematics in the evening at a school in Newcastle. In 1764 he published his first work, The Schoolmasters Guide, or a Complete System of Practical Arithmetic, which in 1770 was followed by his Treatise on Mensuration both in Theory and Practice. In 1773 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and in the following year he was elected fellow of the Royal Society of London. He now began to publish interesting papers in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. In 1776 he published A new and general method of finding simple and quickly converging series and two year later, in the same Transactions he published The force of fired gunpowder and the velocity of cannon balls. He received the Copley Medal of the Royal Society for this paper. In 1779 he computed the mean density of the Earth based on Maskelyne's data from the mountain Schiehallion. The paper was titled: An Account of the Calculations made from the Survey and Measures taken at Schiehallion in order to ascertain the mean density of the Earth. This account appeared in the Philosophical Transactions for 1778, and later was reprinted in the second volume of his Tracts on Mathematical and Philosophical Subjects. This study earned Hutton the degree of LL.D. from the University of Edinburgh. He was elected foreign secretary to the Royal Society in 1779, but was forced to resign in 1783 by the president Sir Joseph Banks. Banks behaviour toward the mathematical section of the society was often considered both abusive and tyranical. Hutton retired from his professorship in 1807 at the age of seventy and went to live in Bedford Row, London. Shortly before his death he was consulted about the curves which should be adopted for the arches for the New London Bridge, the proposed structure having five semielliptical stone arches. Construction of the bridge began in 1824, the year after Hutton's death. . Huttons "Mathematical Tables", was first published in 1785, and was for the use of the Royal Military Academy. In addition to being considered an excellent mathematical text, Huttons work contains what is considered a very good history of mathematics up to 1785.