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-The method of logarithms was first publicly propounded in [[1614]], in a book entitled ''Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio,'' by [[John Napier]], Baron of Merchiston, in [[Scotland]].<ref>[http://ualr.edu/lasmoller/napier.html Did you know?] (Website of the [[University of Arkansas]] at [[Little Rock]], [[Arkansas]])</ref>
-[[Jost Bürgi]], a [[Swiss]] mathematician, independently discovered logarithms but did not publish his discovery until four years after Napier.<ref>[http://turnbull.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Burgi.html Jost Bürgi] (Website of the [[University of St. Andrews]], Scotland)</ref>
-Early resistance to the use of logarithms was muted by the support of [[Johannes Kepler]], the German mathematician and [[astronomer]], who published a clear and impeccable explanation in 1624 of how logarithms worked.<ref>[http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Kepler.html  Johannes Kepler] (Website of the [[University of St. Andrews]], Scotland)</ref>
-The use logarithms contributed to the advance of science, and especially of [[astronomy]], by making some difficult calculations possible.  Prior to the advent of [[electronic calculators]] and [[computer]]s, logarithms were used extensively in [[surveying]], [[navigation]], [[engineering]], [[chemistry]] and many other disciplines.
-==References==
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