Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio, ejusque usus, in utraque trigonometria; ut etiam in omni logistica mathematica, amplissimi, facillimi, & expeditissimi explicatio
106. Napier, a Scottish mathematician, developed a system of logarithms in
this important work. Logarithms proved useful for people doing a great deal
of calculations as it reduced multiplication and division down to the simpler
effort of addition and subtraction.
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Napier, John
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Ex officinâ A. Hart, Edinbvrgi, 1614
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