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To decrease geometrically is this, that in equal times, first the whole quantity then each of its successive remainders is diminished, always by a like proportional part.

— John Napier The Construction of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms (1889)

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Any desired geometrical mean between two sines has for its Logarithm the corresponding arithmetical mean between the Logarithms of the sines.

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Whence a geometrically moving point approaching a fixed one has its velocities proportionate to its distances from the fixed one.

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And if any number of equals to a first sine be multiplied together producing a second, just so many equals to the Logarithm of the first added together produce the Logarithm of the second.

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