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Why an astronomer built his own logarithm table

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Johannes Kepler (Wikipedia)
Life: Linz, 1617 to 1624
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He realised the value of the method for simplifying the many calculations required in the Tables, but was dissatisfied that Napier presented only the method and not the derivation.
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