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Napier 1614 — Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio
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J. Napier (1614). Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio. Edinburgh, 1614. Canonical: https://archive.org/details/mirificilogarith00napi. Free copy: https://archive.org/details/mirificilogarith00napi. License as found: public domain (the author died more than a century ago, or the work was published before 1930). What it gave the chain: the first table of logarithms, and the word.
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- part of → The logarithm - the instrument the joints share — a root of this chain - one of the two trees it began from
- enables → Briggs 1624 — Arithmetica logarithmica — base-ten logarithms, thirty thousand of them to fourteen places - the digits of a number a
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