Mr Mercator's Logarithmotechnia - the Demonstration Promised at the end of the foregoing discourse
Reference number: RBO/4/2
Date: 5 August 1668
Description
Wallis'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
- Reference number
- RBO/4/2
- Earliest possible date
- 5 August 1668
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Mr Mercator's Logarithmotechnia - the Demonstration Promised at the end of the foregoing discourse, 5 August 1668, RBO/4/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_4_2/mr-mercators-logarithmotechnia-the-demonstration-promised-at-the-end-of-the-foregoing-discourse, accessed on 25 April 2025
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 4, copies of papers communicated 1668-1675
1668-1675 Reference number: RBO/4
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William Brouncker
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