《Amazing Description of the Law of Logarithms》 - Amazing Description of the Law of Logarithms

…He was a Scottish nobleman who was involved in politics and religious affairs, but studied mathematics and natural sciences in his spare time. In 1614, he published “A Description of the Remarkable Laws of Logarithms,” which included a table of the logarithms of the sines of angles from 0° to 90° at intervals of one minute, and demonstrated the usefulness of logarithms in astronomical calculations. Henry Briggs (1556?-1631), inspired by his work, created a table of common logarithms (1624). …

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…スコットランドの貴族で，政治や宗教問題に関与したが余暇に数学や自然科学を研究した。1614年に《驚くべき対数の法則の記述》を発表，0゜より90゜まで1分おきの角の正弦の対数の表を添え，対数が天文計算などに有用なことを示した。それに感激し示唆を受けたブリッグズHenry Briggs(1556？‐1631)は常用対数表(1624)を作った。…

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