The construction of the wonderful canon of logarithms

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at p. 426 of the Memoirs. The two celebrated propositions by Napier
are Nos. 117 & 120 of the second part.
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In describing the formation of the Logarithmic Table, in section 59
of the Constructio, Napier says that Reinhold's common table of sines
(or any other more exact) will supply the values for filling in the natural
sines in columns 2 and 6, and the table of sines in this work (" Canon
Sinvvm Vel Semissivm Redarvm In Circvlo Svbtensarvm.", fol 1 14), was
probably the one he made use of.
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