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 John Speidell ( fl. 1600–1634) was an English mathematician. He is known for his early work on the calculation of logarithms.
Speidell was a mathematics teacher in London and one of the early followers of the work John Napier had previously done ...
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He also published a book called ''Logarithmotechnia, or, The making of numbers called logarithms to twenty five places from a geometrical figure'' in 1688.
Speidell lived in Angel Alley in the 1680s and 1690s, according to the
Survey of London
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Speidell's name appears on an instrument made by his contemporary Henry Sutton.
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17th-century English mathematicians
17th-century births
Year of birth uncertain
1702 deaths