 Mikhail Lomonosov was himself taught by this book, which he called the "gates to his own erudition".This book was more an encyclopedia of mathematics than a textbook, and the first secular book to be printed in Russia.In 1703, Magnitsky also produced a Russian edition of Adriaan Vlacq's log tables called "Таблицы логарифмов и синусов, тангенсов и секансов" (Tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, and secants).