2024-02-03
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References
The History of Mathematical Tables: From Sumer to Spreadsheets - Martin Campbell-Kelly
Navigation - James Pryde
e: the story of a number - Eli Maor
Description of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms - John Napier
Construction of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms - John Napier
Arithmetical Logarithmica - Henry Briggs, translated by Ian Bruce https://www.17centurymaths.com/contents/albriggs.html
The Daring Invention of Logarithm Tables - Klaus Truemper
Henry Briggs MacTutor: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Briggs/
A reconstruction of the tables of Briggs’ Arithmetica logarithmica - Denis Roegel
A reconstruction of the tables of Napier’s descriptio (1614) - Denis Roegel
The HP-35 Design, A Case Study in Innovation - David S. Cochran https://www.hpmemoryproject.org/wb_pages/d_cochran_01.htm
The Polyphase Slide Rule A Self Teaching Manual - William E. Breckenridge
When Slide Rules Ruled - Cliff Stoll