The first description of this scale was published in LOCATION@1 in NUMBER@1 by PERSON@1 -LRB- c. NUMBER@2 - NUMBER@3 -RRB- , an MISC@1 mathematician , in a book entitled L'usage de la reigle de proportion en l'arithmetique & geometrie .

The first description of this scale was published in LOCATION@1 in NUMBER@1 by PERSON@1 -LRB- c. NUMBER@2 - NUMBER@3 -RRB- , an MISC@2 , in a book entitled `` L'usage de la reigle de proportion en l'arithmetique & geometrie '' .
