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Early Tables Resembling Those of Natural Logarithms (2016)

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That natural logarithms may be constructed from Napier's logarithms is no surprise to a modern mathematician, but the thought that this might have been done within ten years of Napier's original publication seems a historical impossibility, since by that time, most of the modern constituents of the notion had not been conceived. Nonetheless the practical use of Napier's tables required interpolation, and the systematization of that interpolation generated a new table with a remarkable similarity to natural logarithms. This interpolation table was later extended by Speidell to stand alongside his ‘New Logarithms’, as an alternative form.

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Authors & Contributors
Craik, Alex D. D.
Havil, Julian
Burn, R. P.
Cervara, José Antonio
Clark, Kathleen M.
Etker, Şeref
Journals
Historia Mathematica
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Osmanli Bilimi Arastirmalari: Studies in Ottoman Science
Quaderns d'Història de l'Enginyeria
Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques
Publishers
Princeton University Press
El Colegio de Mexico
National Museums of Scotland Publishing
Springer
Concepts
Logarithms
Mathematics
Mathematicians
Biographies
Functions (mathematics)
Calculus
People
Napier, John
Bails, Benito
Euler, Leonhard
Bürgi, Joost
Caramuel, Juan
de Sarasa, Alphonse Antonio
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
19th century
16th century
Renaissance
10th century
Places
Scotland
Spain
Great Britain
India
Iran
British Isles
Institutions
Istanbul Teknik Universitesi
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