Nicholas Mercator (about 1620 to 1687), also known by his German name Kauffmann, was a seventeenth century mathematician born in Eutin in the Prince-Bishopric of Lubeck. He studied at Rostock and Leyden, lived in the Dutch Republic from 1642 to 1648, lectured at the University of Copenhagen from 1648 to 1654 and then spent time in Paris before teaching mathematics in London from 1658 to 1682. In 1661 he observed a transit of Mercury with Christiaan Huygens and Thomas Streete, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1666, and he designed a marine chronometer for Charles II. He is best known for his 1668 treatise Logarithmo-technia on logarithms, which described the series now named for him, and he was the first person to use the term natural logarithm. He also gave the first precise account of 53 equal temperament in music. In 1682 he moved to Versailles to help design the palace fountains and died there in 1687.
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Nicholas (Nikolaus) Mercator (c. 1620, Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck, 1687, Versailles), also known by his German name Kauffmann, was a 17th-century mathematician.
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He was born in Eutin, Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck, Holy Roman Empire and educated at Rostock and Leyden
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