Book:Henry Briggs/Arithmetica Logarithmica

Henry Briggs: Arithmetica Logarithmica

Published $\text {1624}$
In English:

The Arithmetic of Logarithms

Subject Matter

• Briggsian logarithms

Contents

• A set of tables of $30 \, 000$ logarithms going up to $14$ decimal places.

Sources

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Briggs, Henry (1561-1630)
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Briggs, Henry (1561-1630)
• 2008: Ian Stewart: Taming the Infinite ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $5$: Eternal Triangles: Base ten logarithms