Talk:Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio

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Books in German?

I am puzzled by the following statement at the beginning of the page "are two books in German by John Napier expounding the method of logarithms". Why would Napier write in German? I found mentions of German translations, shortly after publication of the originals, but it does not seem to make sense that the original were in German. FRZH (talk) 19:34, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for spotting that. The error was added a month and a half ago in special:diff/1270150730 by the IP editor special:contributions/24.194.219.212 (as a joke?) and no one noticed right away. –jacobolus (t) 19:39, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]