Abstract

While browsing through the earliest French treatise on logarithms—Traicté des logarithmes (Paris, 1626) by Denis Henrion (c.1590-1640), Professor of Mathematics at Paris, my attention was caught by the method he adopted for the logarithmic solution of an oblique triangle when the three sides are given.

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