Good book, author is Eli Maor. Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-
03390-0.

Besides the main topic math content, has interesting biographical
details on Napier, Briggs and Oughtred (and Delamain, who apparently
had a priority dispute with Oughtred). Including how Napier's logs
actually were constructed and how Briggs transformed them into the
form we now know.

I'm still reading the volume, but I now have a better contextual
understanding of this material than perhaps I did when I took my math
sequence in college.

Slide rules and related material only takes a few pages, but I think
the rest of the book is interesting enough to recommend to this group.

One editorial comment from the book: "...As for logarithmic tables,
they fared a little better [than slide rules]: one can still [1994]
find them at the back of algebra textbooks, a mute reminder of a tool
that has outlived its usefulness [as opposed to the logarithmic
function]. It won't be long, however, before they too will be a thing
of the past." Square brackets are my comments.

Best,
Mike