The Construction of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms #252318

To the critical events of I 588 which, as we have already seen, drew Napier into public life, is due the appearance in already mentioned. The treatise was intended to have been written in Latin, but, owing to the events above referred to, he was, as he says, 'constrained of compassion, leaving the Latin to haste out in English the present work almost unripe.' It was published in 1593. A revised edition appeared in 161 1, wherein he still expressed his intention of rewriting it in Latin, but this was never accomplished.