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RefNoRBO/4/2
AltRefNoRBO.4.5
LevelItem
TitleMr Mercator's Logarithmotechnia - the Demonstration Promised at the end of the foregoing discourse
Date5 August 1668
DescriptionWallis's own method of finding the sum of a logarithm (demonstration promised at end of RBO/4/1)
Written in a letter to the Lord Brouncker and read before the Society in 1668
Figure 1 - ink drawing, height 700mm x 500 mm
Figure 2 - ink drawing, height 450 mm x 800mm
LanguageLatin
Extent4 sides
FormatManuscript
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialPrinted in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 3, no 38, p 756
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA3503Brouncker; William (c1620 - 1684); 2nd Viscount Brouncker; mathematicianc1620 - 1684
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