Summary

John Napier,  The Construction of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms… (1889)

“ MUltiply the secant of the complement of the sum of the angles at the base by the tangent of half the base.
⁠Multiply the product by the sine of the greater angle at the base, and you will have the first found.
⁠Multiply the same product by the sine of the less angle, and you will have the second found. [d]
⁠Then divide the sum of the first and second found by the square of radius, and you will have the tangent of half the sum of the sides. ⁠Also subtract the less from the greater and you will have the tangent of half the difference of the sides.
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