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Johannes Kepler Calculates Logarithms by a New Procedure

1624 to 1625
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Photograph of the title page of a very browned and stained copy, defaced with several library stamps and other library notations.

In 1624 Astronomer Johannes Kepler published Chilias Logarithmorum from Marburg and in 1625 published the Supplementum, creating his logarithmic tables by a new geometrical procedure, the form differing from the logarithms of both Napier and Briggs.

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Mathematics / Logic
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