"Briggs's Aritmetica Logarithmica the preface... contains the following statement by the author...That these logarithms differ from those which that illustrious man, the Baron of Merchiston published in his Canon Mirificus must not surprise you. For I myself, when expounding their doctrine publicly in London to my auditors in Gresham College, remarked that it would be much more convenient that 0 should be kept for the logarithm of the whole sine (as in the Canon Mirificus)... And concerning that matter I wrote immediately to the author himself; and as soon as... permitted I journeyed to Edinburgh, where, being most hospitably received by him, I lingered for a whole month. But as we talked over the change in logarithms he said that he had for some time been of the same opinion and had wished to accomplish it. ...He was of the opinion that... 0 should be the logarithm of unity."
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