Caramuel

Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz

Born: 23 May 1606 in Madrid, Spain
Died: 7 Sept 1682 in Milan, Italy

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Juan Caramuel received a doctorate in theology from Louvain and worked all his life in the Cistercian Order. In a work in 1670 he expounded the general principle of numbers to base n pointing out the benefits of some other bases than 10. Caramuel proposed a new method of trisecting an angle and developed a system of logarithms to base 10^9 where log 10^1^0 = 0 and log 1 = 10.

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  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. R Cenal, Juan Caramuel. Su epistolario con Atanasio Kircher, Revista de filosofia 12 (1953), 101-147.
  3. D Pastine, Juan Caramuel (Florence, 1975). 
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