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    Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio (Description of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms, 1614) and Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Constructio (Construction...
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    trigonometric context so it would be even more relevant. His work Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio (1614) contained fifty-seven pages of explanatory matter...
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    (xy/10^{7})=\mathrm {NapLog} (x)+\mathrm {NapLog} (y)} In Napier's 1614 Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, he provides tables of logarithms of sines for 0 to 90°...
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    first time by John Napier in 1614, in his book entitled Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio (Description of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms). The...
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    This shape was described by John Napier in his 1614 book Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio (Description of the wonderful rule of logarithms) along...
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    publicly propounded by John Napier in 1614, in a book titled Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio (Description of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms). Prior...
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  • anonymous appendix to the 1618 edition of John Napier's Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio. This appendix has been attributed to William Oughtred...
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    propounded by John Napier in 1614, in a book entitled Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio (Description of the Wonderful Rule of Logarithms). The...
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    This shape was described by John Napier in his 1614 book Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio (Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms) along...
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  • groundless conceits". At this time, Briggs obtained a copy of Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, in which Napier introduced the idea of logarithms. It...
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    Sir Francis Bacon. 1614 John Napier publishes his work Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio introducing the concept of logarithms which simplifies...
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  • Napierian logarithms in Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio. 1617 – Henry Briggs discusses decimal logarithms in Logarithmorum Chilias Prima. 1618 –...
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  • invention or discovery of logarithms by John Napier, in his Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio of 1614, the translation of that work by Edward Wright...
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  • is succeeded by his son. 1614: John Napier publishes Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, the first table of logarithms. 1614: Sultan Iskandar...
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    Sun-dials, but he was mainly preoccupied with John Napier's Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio (Description of the Wonderful Rule of Logarithms), which...
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    in Japan. Scottish mathematician John Napier publishes Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio (Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms), outlining...
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  • events. Scottish mathematician John Napier publishes Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio ("Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms"),...
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  • Napierian logarithms in Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, 1617 — Henry Briggs discusses decimal logarithms in Logarithmorum Chilias Prima, 1618 —...
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    in Japan. Scottish mathematician John Napier publishes Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio (Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms), outlining...
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  • decimal fractions in European mathematics. John Napier Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio 1614 Introduced logarithms, aiding calculation with large...
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    was later used in its modern context by John Napier in Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio. Trigonometriae sive De dimensione triangulorum (in Latin)...
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  • Messenger). Frankfurt, 1610. Astronomy Napier, John. Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, 1614. Logarithms Kepler, Johannes. Harmonices Mundi....
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  • Malthus, 1798 £28,000 – Dialogo, Galileo, 1632 £16,000 – Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, John Napier, 1614 £15,000 – Traite de la Lumiere, Huygens...
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