JOHN NAPIER (1550-1617), Scottish mathematician and inventor of logarithms, was born at Merchiston near Edinburgh in 1550, and was the eighth Napier of Merchiston. [Please select]
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A savant spends two years in calculating a table of logarithms to nine or ten decimals. [Please select]
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What an infinity of calculation, in the infancy of science,--before the invention of logarithms,--was necessary to arrive at these truths. [Please select]
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[30] Napier, a Scotchman, invented logarithms, which lie at the basis of the higher mathematics. [Please select]
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He cared so little about them that he takes no notice of Napier's invention of Logarithms. [Please select]
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There's a proverb somewhere--" "In Milton, maybe, or Napier's book o' logarithms," suggested Captain Bunting."' [Please select]
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Professor Griggs"--the professor of mathematics--"said he would not break away from his regular diet of logarithms and radicals. [Please select]
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