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The haversine first appears in the tables of logarithmic versines of José de Mendoza y Rios (Madrid, 1801, also 1805, 1809), and later in a treatise on navigation of James Inman (1821). See J. D. White in Nautical Magazine (February and July 1926).(NB. ISBN and link for reprint of 2nd edition by Cosimo, Inc., New York, USA, 2013.)