Euclid Speidell

Euclid Speidell (died 1702) was an English customs official and mathematics teacher known for his writing on logarithms. Speidell published revised and expanded versions of texts by his father, John Speidell.[1] He also published a book called Logarithmotechnia, or, The making of numbers called logarithms to twenty five places from a geometrical figure in 1688.[2]

Speidell's name appears on an instrument made by his contemporary Henry Sutton.[3]

References

Beeley, Philip (June 2019). "Practical mathematicians and mathematical practice in later seventeenth-century London". The British Journal for the History of Science. 52 (2): 225–248. doi:10.1017/S0007087419000207.
"Logarithmotechnia, or, The making of numbers called logarithms to twenty five places from a geometrical figure". WorldCat. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
Jardine, Boris (2008). "The 'incomparable' Mr. Sutton: a famous 17th-century instrument maker". Whipple Collections. Whipple Museum of History and Science. Retrieved 29 October 2016.

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[practical-1] Beeley, Philip (June 2019). "Practical mathematicians and mathematical practice in later seventeenth-century London". The British Journal for the History of Science. 52 (2): 225–248. doi:10.1017/S0007087419000207.

[worldcat-2] "Logarithmotechnia, or, The making of numbers called logarithms to twenty five places from a geometrical figure". WorldCat. Retrieved 13 March 2020.

[whipple-3] Jardine, Boris (2008). "The 'incomparable' Mr. Sutton: a famous 17th-century instrument maker". Whipple Collections. Whipple Museum of History and Science. Retrieved 29 October 2016.