"Proceeding to... the earliest publication of tables of natural logarithms... John Speidell... in 1619 brought out his New Logarithmes, only five years after Napier's publication of the Descriptio. Speidell's book received little attention, either during his life-time or since. It would seem as if the earliest publication of a table of natural logarithms should be mentioned in histories of mathematics, but so far as I know, no general history by a German, French, or British author, takes notice of Speidell. ..However, Speidell's New Logarithmes has been described in at least three special historical articles. Hutton speaks of it in the "Introduction" to his Tables; Augustus De Morgan makes a careful study of his book in the article "Tables" in the English Cyclopaedia; a J. W. L. Glaisher gives a brief account of Speidell's work in the report on "Tables" in the British Association Report, 1873..."
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