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- Number line (redirect from The real number line)to operations, though, is found in John Napier's A description of the admirable table of logarithmes, which shows values 1 through 12 lined up from left...18 KB (2,414 words) - 09:39, 8 March 2024
relate logarithms to one another. The logarithm of a product is the sum of the logarithms of the numbers being multiplied; the logarithm of the ratio of two...97 KB (11,494 words) - 13:56, 19 May 2024
Edward Wright (mathematician) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)English. This was published after Wright's death as A Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithmes (1616). Wright's work influenced, among other persons...68 KB (8,443 words) - 04:33, 23 April 2024
Pentagramma mirificum (category Types of polygons)Descriptio (Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms) along with rules that link the values of trigonometric functions of five parts of a right spherical...7 KB (1,190 words) - 17:06, 28 August 2023- 1614 in science (category Articles with short description)Canonis Descriptio ("Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms"), outlining his discovery of logarithms and incorporating the decimal mark. Astronomer...2 KB (149 words) - 19:48, 3 January 2024
1614 (category Articles with short description)Canonis Descriptio (Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms), outlining his discovery of logarithms, and incorporating the decimal mark. Astronomer...20 KB (2,454 words) - 20:06, 15 January 2024- Nicholas Okes (category Articles with short description)a follower of William Gilbert, and John Napier's A Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms (1616). Printers who published usually needed a retail...13 KB (1,914 words) - 20:14, 20 November 2023
- might have collated earlier in the table had they been listed separately (in this example, "a-" and "ac-"). Lists of Greek and Latin roots in English...1 KB (1,336 words) - 06:14, 16 April 2024
1610s (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)Canonis Descriptio (Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms), outlining his discovery of logarithms, and incorporating the decimal mark. Astronomer...293 bytes (27,860 words) - 21:28, 16 November 2023
Thomas Wright Hill (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)manuscripts at the British Library, returning some logarithm tables that he had borrowed and adding "How happy I shall be when I can see such a work verified...14 KB (2,155 words) - 18:53, 16 February 2024
Christiaan Huygens (redirect from The Celestial Worlds Discover'd)case of the hyperbola, the same approximation with parabolic segments produces a quick and simple method to calculate logarithms. He appended a collection...134 KB (14,062 words) - 06:11, 6 May 2024
and the various time zones of Earth. The invention of the telescope and the theodolite and the development of logarithm tables allowed exact triangulation...100 KB (12,808 words) - 16:18, 18 May 2024
- of a logarithm. It follows from these equations that the logarithm of the product of any number of quantities is equal to the sum of the logarithms of
- John Napier of Merchiston issued his Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, ("A Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms"), the first treatise
- A. & John Lynch, Auth. Surv. Algebra to Quadratic Equations .. .. ditto . Logarithms .. .. ditto. Trigonometry .. .. ditto. Description and use of Mathematical