The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive biography of Napier, cited for Laplace's assessment of the impact of logarithms.
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PublisherMacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
URLhttps://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Napier/
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