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Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 594

Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1834
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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John Napier
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 60

John Napier

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: CUP Archive

Presents a biographical sketch of Scottish mathematician John Napier (1550-1617), compiled as part of the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland. Highlights Naimark's work on logarithms.

John Napier
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

John Napier

The most comprehensive account of the mathematician's life and work John Napier (1550–1617) is celebrated today as the man who invented logarithms—an enormous intellectual achievement that would soon lead to the development of their mechanical equivalent in the slide rule: the two would serve humanity as the principal means of calculation until the mid-1970s. Yet, despite Napier's pioneering efforts, his life and work have not attracted detailed modern scrutiny. John Napier is the first contemporary biography to take an in-depth look at the multiple facets of Napier’s story: his privileged position as the eighth Laird of Merchiston and the son of influential Scottish landowners; his re...

Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston, His Lineage, Life, and Times
  • Language: en

Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston, His Lineage, Life, and Times

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1834
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Life and Works of John Napier
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 994

The Life and Works of John Napier

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-03-09
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  • Publisher: Springer

For the first time, all five of John Napier’s works have been brought together in English in a single volume, making them more accessible than ever before. His four mathematical works were originally published in Latin: two in his lifetime (1550–1617), one shortly after he died, and one over 200 years later. The authors have prepared three introductory chapters, one covering Napier himself, one his mathematical works, and one his religious work. The former has been prepared by one of Napier’s descendants and contains many new findings about Napier’s life to provide the most complete biography of this enigmatic character, whose reputation has previously been overshadowed by rumour and...

Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston, His Lineage, Life, and Times, with a History of the Invention of Logarithms
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 534
John Napier
  • Language: en

John Napier

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Nms

"Reformatted and reprinted in 2013 by NMS Enterprises Limited, a divsiion of NMS Enterprises Limited, National Museums of Scotland"--Colophon.

Hands
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 195

Hands

Intended for all readers--including magicians, detectives, musicians, orthopedic surgeons, and anthropologists--this book offers a thorough account of that most intriguing and most human of appendages: the hand. In this illustrated work, John Napier explores a wide range of absorbing subjects such as fingerprints, handedness, gestures, fossil remains, and the making and using of tools.

An Account of the Life, Writings, and Inventions of John Napier of Merchiston
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160
Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston, His Lineage, Life and Times
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 580

Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston, His Lineage, Life and Times

Excerpt from Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston, His Lineage, Life and Times: With a History of the Invention of Logarithms She had collected, she and my father invited him to come and live with them at Madura early in 1783, and there introduced him to all the Brahmins and other literary natives who resided at that place. No life of Napier, however, was destined to result from these spirited proceedings, which gave rise to the celebrated Mac kenzie Collection and, Sir Alexander adds in his evidence, the Marquis of Hastings purchased the whole collection for the East India Company from Colonel Mackenzie's widow for L. And thereby preserved for the British Government the most.valu able mater...