The Construction of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms: Translated from Latin Into English with Notes and a Catalogue of the Various Editions of Napier's Works (Classic Reprint)
The Construction of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms: Translated from Latin Into English with Notes and a Catalogue of the Various Editions of Napier's Works (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Construction of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms: Translated From Latin Into English With Notes and a Catalogue of the Various Editions of Napier's Works To the critical events of I 588 which, as we have already seen, drew Napier into public life, is due the appearance in already mentioned. The treatise was intended to have been written in Latin, but, owing to the events above referred to, he was, as he says, 'constrained of compassion, leaving the Latin to haste out in English the present work almost ...
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Excerpt from The Construction of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms: Translated From Latin Into English With Notes and a Catalogue of the Various Editions of Napier's Works To the critical events of I 588 which, as we have already seen, drew Napier into public life, is due the appearance in already mentioned. The treatise was intended to have been written in Latin, but, owing to the events above referred to, he was, as he says, 'constrained of compassion, leaving the Latin to haste out in English the present work almost unripe.' It was published in 1593. A revised edition appeared in 161 1, wherein he still expressed his intention of rewriting it in Latin, but this was never accomplished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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