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	Cajori
		Cajori held the chair of mathematics at Colorado College from 1898 until 1918, being Dean of the Department of Engineering for the last fifteen years of his time at Colorado Springs.
		We must now examine a little of the contribution which Cajori made to the history of mathematics to understand his high international reputation in the subject which gained him many honours in his lifetime but the somewhat less regard in which he is held by historians of science today.
		Cajori makes very clear his aim in producing this edition of Newton's Principia which was to make the text readable to modern readers by replacing the archaic language used in the existing English translations of Newton's Latin text.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Cajori.html (975 words)

	Professor Fauvel's Address
		Inwardly Cajori would have found it particularly tiresome as he knew he would have to print this interpretation in the series of Colorado College Studies which he had founded thirteen years before, and whose academic standards he was attempting to keep high.
		Cajori’s final years at the College must have been the most painful and stressful of his career, though that was nothing to do with the students.
		Cajori’s leaving provoked one of the most moving editorials to have appeared in the Tiger, the Colorado College Newspaper of the time.
	www.coloradocollege.edu /dept/ma/history/Faculty/CajFauvel.html (3022 words)

	Dollar sign
		Not only is there no documentation to support this origin, but as Cajori points out, it flies in the face of the earliest recorded usage of the dollar symbol by a high US official.
		Cajori shows a series of different notations between 1600-1800 from Spanish notes and ledgers that support the emergence of the $ symbol from this origin.
		Cajori sights a document from 1778 with thirty-four subscribers to a theater, including George Washington.
	www.pballew.net /dollar.html (1179 words)

	AUE: FAQ excerpt: Origin of the dollar sign
		It is sometimes said that the dollar sign's origin is a narrow "U" superimposed over a wide "S", "U.S." being short for "United States." This is wrong, and the correct explanation also tells why the $ sign is used both for dollars and for pesos in various countries.
		Cajori acknowledges the "U.S." theory and a number of others, but, after examining many 18th-century manuscripts, finds that there is simply no evidence to support those theories.
		Cajori reproduces 14 $ signs from a diary written in 1776; 11 of them have the single stroke, which was the more common form to the end of the century, and 3 have the double stroke.
	www.alt-usage-english.org /excerpts/fxorigin.html (457 words)

	Florian Cajori -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Cajori emigrated to the United States in 1875 and taught at Tulane University in New Orleans (1885–88) and at Colorado College (1889–1918), where he also served as dean of the department of engineering (1903–18).
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		A civil war broke out but ended in the sudden death of Florian, either at the hands of...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9018586 (447 words)

	The Straight Dope: What does the S in the dollar sign represent?
		Lord, if Florian Cajori were alive to hear such talk, it would just kill him.
		Professor Cajori dealt with this question definitively more than 60 years ago in A History of Mathematical Notations--not the ideal beach book, maybe, but one I heartily commend nonetheless.
		Professor Cajori contends that the dollar sign is an abbreviation for "pesos." Bear in mind that the Spanish dollar, also known as the peso de 8 reales, was the principal coin in circulation in the U.S. up until 1794, when we began minting our own dollars.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a3_178.html (580 words)

	Cajori - History of the Logarithmic Slide Rule
		The author was born in Switzerland but spent all his adult life as an academic in the United States.
		Cajori suggested that slide rules were little used in the US until the final decades of the 19th century.
		This addenda is critical as it is here that Cajori attributes the invention of the slide rule to Oughtred.
	www.sliderules.clara.net /pdf/cajori.htm (643 words)

	Professor Florian Cajori (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Florian Cajori (1859-1930) was born in Switzerland, son of a leading civil engineer, and came to the United States in 1875, when he was sixteen.
		As professor of physics from 1889-1898, Cajori ardently promoted scientific studies at the college, not least through his founding of the Colorado College Scientific Society in 1890, and is celebrated particularly for taking, with his physics class, the first X-ray photographs in the West.
		By the end of his time at the college his qualities of calm, reliable diplomacy proved invaluable when he chaired the gang of three who steered the college over the tumultuous period at the end of President Slocum's reign.
	www.coloradocollege.edu /DEPT/MA/History/Faculty/Cajori.html (384 words)

	Mathematical Symbols
		CAJORI, FLORIAN "A History of Mathematics", The Macmillan Company 1926.
		Thomas Harriot (1560-1621) was an English mathematician who lived the longer part of his life in the sixteenth century but whose outstanding publication appeared in the seventeenth century.
		William Oughtred (1574-1660) contributed vastly to the propagation of mathematical knowledge in English by his treatises, the Clavis Mathematicae, 1631, published in Latin (English edition 1647), Circles of Proportion, 1632, and Trigonometrie, 1657.
	www.roma.unisa.edu.au /07305/symbols.htm#Division (5941 words)

	FLORIAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
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	Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (S) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		According to Cajori (1906), the Latin term sinus was introduced in a translation of the astronomy of Al Battani by Plato of Tivoli (or Plato Tiburtinus).
		Cajori gives Edmund Wingate the credit for devising the first slide rule in 1630, although William Oughtred’s device of 1632 is more often cited.
		Cajori states that Oughtred was an independent discoverer of the rectilinear slide rule and the first to propose a circular rule.
	members.aol.com /jeff570/s.html (12600 words)

	Physics Today On The Web - Book Review March 2000
		Motte’s standard English translation from the Latin appeared in 1729, two years after Newton’s death, and by 1934 it was certainly archaic and in need of replacement.
		For many years, scholars have recognized that Cajori’s revision of Motte’s translation was inadequate: It was awkward, often inaccurate, and it was based on the second and not the final (third) edition of the Principia.
		Cohen and Whitman (who died in 1984, after the translation was completed) met the challenge and have produced an excellent, modern translation that is more accurate and easier to read than the Motte—Cajori version.
	www.aip.org /pt/mar00/principia.htm (720 words)

	A History of the Logarithmic Sliderule by Florian Cajori
		A History of the Logarithmic Sliderule by Florian Cajori
		The slide rule, with its many variations has been vital to mathematics and engineering since its invention in the 17th century.
		Also included with this reprint of the 1910 edition is Cajori’s extensive article “On the History of Gunter’s Scale and the Slide Rule during the 17th Century,” which sets forth his subsequent findings.
	www.astragalpress.com /history_logarithmic_slide_rule.htm (111 words)

	Florian Cajori -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		In 1918 he became professor of the history of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.
		His revised translation of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia was published posthumously in 1934.
		"Cajori, Florian." Britannica Concise Encyclopedia from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9018586 (527 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Florian Cajori (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
		Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Florian Cajori; all previous versions may be viewed here.
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	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Florian_Cajori (273 words)

	Mathematical Notation: Past and Future
		When this conference was first being put together, people thought it would be good to have someone talk about general issues of mathematical notation.
		And there was an obvious candidate speaker--a certain Florian Cajori--author of a classic book entitled A History of Mathematical Notation.
		But upon investigation, it turned out that there was a logistical problem in inviting the esteemed Dr. Cajori--he has been dead for no less than seventy years.
	www.stephenwolfram.com /publications/talks/mathml/mathml1.html (954 words)

	References for Cajori (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Obituary of Florian Cajori, Science 72 (19 Sept 1930).
		U C Merzbach, The study of the history of mathematics in America : a centennial sketch, in A century of mathematics in America III (Providence, RI, 1989), 639-666.
		J D Zund, Florian Cajori, American National Biography 4 (Oxford, 1999), 190-191.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/References/Cajori.html (59 words)

	MSN Encarta - Florian Cajori
		Cajori, Florian (1859-1930), American mathematician, known for his works on the history of mathematics.
		Cajori was born in Saint Aignan, near Thusis,...
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	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_762507941/Florian_Cajori.html (76 words)

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		Don touted the book A History of Mathematical Notations by Florian Cajori [Dover Publication 1994], ISBN 0-486-67766-4.
		Don cited as an example that Cajori described the origins of the signs + and - to represent addition and subtraction, respectively.
		For a biography of Florian Cajori see the website http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Cajori.html.
	www.iit.edu /~smile/weekly/mp102604.html (1131 words)

	Links to PDF files
		This was done automatically by Adobe Acrobat but I think is quite useful.
		The book, written by Florian Cajori, is the standard work on the early history of the slide rule.
		There is also a version as a Word document which is smaller (2040 Kb).
	www.sliderules.clara.net /pdf/pdf.htm (283 words)

	★ Books by Florian Bruyas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Florian Cajori Glorian Cajori - A History of Mathematical NotationsTwo Volumes Bound As OneNotations in Elementary Mathematics Vol 1Notations Mainly in Higher Mathematics Vol - 0486677664
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	www.bookpricecomparisonsearch.com /297457_florian-bruyas_1135171130histoiredeloperetteenfrancemysterybookstores.html (119 words)

	Amazon.com: A History of Mathematics: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The book is a must for personal and departmental libraries alike.
		Cajori has mastered the art of incorporating an enormous amount of specific detail into a smooth-flowing narrative.
		The Index---for example---contains not just the 300 to 400 names one would expect to find, but over 1,600.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0821821024?v=glance (510 words)

	Properties of Logarithms
		Probably because this logarithm was used so commonly, people began to leave off the subscript.
		This can be seen as early as 1647 in the writings of William Oughtred (Florian Cajori, A History of Mathematical Notations, vol.
		One of the earliest known uses was only in 1893 (Florian Cajori, A History of Mathematical Notations, vol.
	campus.northpark.edu /math/PreCalculus/Transcendental/Logarithmic/Properties (2460 words)

	Powell's Books - History of Elementary Mathematics Rev Edition by Florian Cajori
		A broad-based overview in the final section examines the trends that led to modern mathematics, including arithmetic's growth as a science and art, the renaissance of algebra, and applications of Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry.
		Author Florian Cajori almost single-handedly created the history of mathematics as an academic subject in the United States, and this volume represents one of his finest professional achievements.
		Unabridged republication of the revised and enlarged 1917 edition.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0486438740 (654 words)

	Accounting Ratio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Accounting Ratio - May 13 - In India, the Congres
		August 15 - Florian Cajori, historian of accounting ratio mathematics.
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	accounting.funhosts.com /accounting/ratio.html (811 words)

	Florian Cajori A History of the Logarithmic Slide Rule and Allied Instruments and on the History of Gunter's Scale ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Florian Cajori A History of the Logarithmic Slide Rule and Allied Instruments and on the History of Gunter's Scale and the Slide Rule During the Seventeenth Century
		Florian Cajori A History of the Logarithmic Slide Rule and Allied Instruments and on the History of Gunter's Scale and the Slide Rule During the Seventeenth Century
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	AIP Niels Bohr Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
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		A history of the conceptions of limits and fluxions in Great Britain, from Newton to Woodhouse / by Florian Cajori...
		Chicago ; London : The Open Court Pub.
	www.aip.org /history/catalog/15940.html (37 words)

	Find in a Library: Mathematical principles of natural philosophy ; Optics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Find in a Library: Mathematical principles of natural philosophy ; Optics
		by Isaac Newton, Sir; Isaac Newton, Sir; Christiaan Huygens; Andrew Motte; Florian Cajori; Silvanus Phillips Thompson
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	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/9f2f12aada021895.html (56 words)

	Resources
		The Slide Rule by Florian Cajori (in Word format)
		The Slide Rule by Florian Cajori (a pdf file)
		A Pickworth Book for the A.W. Faber Rule
	sliderules.lovett.com /resource.cgi (866 words)

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