"Henry Briggs... applied himself chiefly to the study of mathematics. ...As soon as the Napierian discovery of logarithms was announced, he made two successive journeys into Scotland, to confer with the discoverer himself, and settle plans for the calculation and construction of logarithmic tables. An account of the nature and properties of logarithms was published at Edinburgh, in 1618, by Robert Napier, the son of the great discoverer, under the following title: Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis constructio et eorum ad Naturales ipsorum Numeros Habitudines una cum Appendice de alia caque prestantiori Logarithmorum Specie condenda, &c. &c. This book had been written, and was ready for the press, when John Napier, the inventor of logarithms, was prevented from publishing it by his death. The same year Briggs published a table of the logarithms of the first 1,000 natural numbers, under the title of Logarithmorum Chilias prima. In 1624, he published, under the title of Arithmetica Logarithmica, the logarithms of all numbers from 1 to 20,000 and from 90,000 to 100,000, calculated to 14 decimal places."
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