Editing John Napier (section)

==Influence==
Among Napier's early followers were the instrument makers [[Edmund Gunter]] and [[John Speidell]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The London encyclopaedia: or Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, comprising a popular view of the present state of knowledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u1IPAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA498|access-date=23 May 2012|date=1829|page=498}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Florian Cajori|title=A History of Mathematics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mGJRjIC9fZgC&pg=PA152|access-date=23 May 2012|date=1991|publisher=American Mathematical Soc.|isbn=978-0-8218-2102-2|page=152}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Ivor Grattan-Guinness|title=Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f5FqsDPVQ2MC&pg=PA1129|access-date=23 May 2012|date=1 August 2003|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-7397-3|page=1129|author-link=Ivor Grattan-Guinness}}</ref> The development of logarithms is given credit as the largest single factor in the general adoption of [[decimal arithmetic]].<ref>{{cite book|author=David Eugene Smith|title=History of Mathematics|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofmathema0002smit|url-access=registration|access-date=23 May 2012|date=1 June 1958|publisher=Courier Dover Publications|isbn=978-0-486-20430-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofmathema0002smit/page/244 244]}}</ref> The ''Trissotetras'' (1645) of [[Thomas Urquhart]] builds on Napier's work, in [[trigonometry]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Garrett A. Sullivan|author2=Alan Stewart|title=The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R7UeL_0Pu3oC&pg=PA995|access-date=23 May 2012|date=1 February 2012|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-4051-9449-5|page=995}}</ref>

Henry Briggs was an early adopter of the Napierian logarithm. He later computed a new table of logarithms to base 10, accurate to 14 decimal places.<ref>{{Citation|last1=Rice|first1=Brian|title=John Napier|date=2017|work=The Life and Works of John Napier|pages=37|publisher=Springer International Publishing|isbn=9783319532813|last2=González-Velasco|first2=Enrique|last3=Corrigan|first3=Alexander|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-53282-0_1}}</ref>