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Notes
Selected Works of John Napier
A1. John Napier,
Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, translated [online
book] (transcribed from an original translation by Edward Wright in
1616) http://www.johnnapier.com/table_of_logarithms_001.htm
(johnnapier.com, accessed 2004-09-08). From Alexander B. Stross, 2004 Sep 7.
A2. "J. Napier-
Logarithms," http://www.ru.nl/w-en-s/gmfw/bronnen/napier1.html (Radboud University,
accessed 2004
Sep
07). This contains
a translated version of
John Napier’s Mirifici logarithmorum canonis
description. From Chia-Keng Lee, 2004 Sep 9.
A3. John Napier, Rabdologiae (1617). Also available online at http://www.computerhistory.org/archive/rabdologiae.pdf (Computer History Museum, accessed 2003 Sep 29). This famous book (in Latin) includes works on Napier's bones, the chessboard calculator, and multiplicationis promptuario.
1. Alexandros Diploudis, "Undusting Napier's Bones," http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~greg/calculators/napier/index.html (Heriot-Watt University, 1997, accessed 2004 Sep 16). This page links to a Java simulator of Napier's bones and to historical background information.
2. John J. O'Conner and Edmund F. Robertson, "John Napier," http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Napier.html (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, accessed 2003 Sep 13).
3. Jacob Leverich, "Logarithm Tables," http://www.dgatx.com/computing/people/Jacob-Leverich/pubs/2003/LT/CS378.html (www.dgatx.com, 2003 Sep 17, accessed 2003 Sep 23).
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