Nikolaus Mercator: Perbedaan antara revisi

'''Nicholas''' (''Nikolaus'') '''Mercator''' (s. 1620, [[Holstein]] – 1687, [[Versailles (kota)|Versailles]]), juga dikenal dengan nama Jermanik ''Kauffmann'', adalah seorang matematikawan abad ke-17. Ia lahir di [[Eutin]], Schleswig-Holstein, Jerman dan dididik di [[Universitas Rostock|Rostock]] dan [[Universitas Leiden|Leyden]]. Setelah itu, ia menetap di [[Belanda]] dari 1642 sampai 1648. Ia mengajar di [[Universitas Kopenhagen]] pada 1648–1654 dan menetap di [[Paris]] dari 1655 sampai 1657.

 

:<math>\ln(1 + x) = x - \frac{1}{2}x^2 + \frac{1}{3}x^3 - \frac{1}{4}x^4 + \cdots.</math>

 

 

* 1676: ''Institutionum astronomicarum'', London (1685, Padua)

* Kinkhuysen (1661) ''Algebra ofte Stelkonst'', translated by N. Mercator, appears 1968 in ''Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton'' II: 295–364 with Newton commentary 364–446.

* 1664: ''Hypothesis astronomica nova'', London

* 1668: [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009310290?type%5B%5D=title&lookfor%5B%5D=logarithmotechnia&ft=ft Logarithmo-technia] from [[HathiTrust]] or [https://archive.org/details/ita-bnc-mag-00000857-001 Logarithmtechnia] from [[Internet Archive]]

* Wallis (1668) Review of ''Logarithmotechnia'', ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'' 3: 753–9, followed by "Some further Illustration" by N. Mercator, pp 759–64.

* 1670: "Some considerations … method of Cassini", ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'' 5: 1168–75.

 

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* Euclid Speidel (1688) [https://books.google.ca/books?id=9l6zSrUQL0UC&printsec=frontcover&dq=logarithmotechnia&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjb7fOw7MHXAhUS3WMKHbF3CqsQ6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=logarithmotechnia&f=false Logarithmotechnia: the making of numbers called logarithms] from [[Google Books]]

 

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