Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio
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Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio
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Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio and Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Constructio are two books in Latin by John Napier expounding the method of logarithms. While others had approached the idea of logarithms, notably Jost Bürgi, it was Napier who first published the concept, along with easily used precomputed tables, in his Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio. Prior to the introduction of logarithms, high accuracy numerical calculations involving multiplication, division and root ex
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First publication of complete tables of logarithms, 1614
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