Talk:Nicholas Mercator

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Nicolaus Mercator was born in 1620 and died in 1687 he was born in Eutin and died in Paris this is all i know about him see you around.

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 * His use of this term is somewhat surprising, since it predates the development of infinitesimal calculus, in which the most natural properties of this logarithm appear.

The term is natural logarithm, previously known as hyperbolic logarithm. — Rgdboer (talk) 00:14, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * It was also in this treatise that the first known use of the term natural logarithm appears, in the Latin form log naturalis.

Text searches could not confirm this claim. Review of Cajori (1913) suggests Leonard Euler as initiator of the term. — Rgdboer (talk) 00:50, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

McTutor asserts that Mercator used the term "natural logarithm: A page number would be helpful. As mentioned, search of Mercator's Logarithmotechnia came up empty. — Rgdboer (talk) 23:18, 7 August 2019 (UTC)