The construction of the wonderful canon of logarithms
By: by John Napier, baron of Merchiston ; translated from Latin into English with notes and a catalogue of the various editions of Napier's works, by William Rae Macdonald, F.F.A.
Contributors: Macdonald, William Rae, 1843-1923
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
Publisher: W. Blackwood and sons
Published: 1889
Place of publication: Edinburgh; London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: Logarithms; Early works to 1800; Spherical trigonometry; Bibliography
Other titles: Construction of logarithms with a catalogue of Napier's works
Work titles: Mirifici logarithmorum canonis constructio
Notes: Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

"A catalogue of the works of John Napier of Merchiston, to which are added a note of some early logarithmic tables and other works of interest, compiled by William Rae Macdonald": p. [101]-169.

Includes bibliographical references.