During the first half of the 17th century, logarithms were taught by some professors in Spain, but knowledge of this subject remained scanty until the publication of Architectura civil by Juan Caramuel (1678) and especially of Trigonometria española by José Zaragoza (1672). Logarithms were considered only as an aid for computation up to the second half of the 18th century. Only when the infinitesimal calculus became more widely spread in Spanish mathematics, analytical interpretations of logarithms were also taken into account in books such as Elementos de matemáticas by Benito Bails (1776).
...MoreDescription Explores early 17th-century works by Juan Caramuel and José Zaragoza and the more widespread 18th-century understanding of logarithms promoted by people such as Benito Bails.
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