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Napier's Logarithms

Nature volume 70, page 31 (1904)Cite this article

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STUDENTS interested in this subject may be recommended to consult “The Construction of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms,” by John Napier, Baron of Merchiston; translated from Latin into English, with notes and a catalogue of the various editions of Napier's works, by William Rae Macdonald, F.F.A. (William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1889.)

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M., G. Napier's Logarithms. Nature 70, 31 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070031d0

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