 | John Marshall - 1829 - 432 páginas
...Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Is descended from John Napier, " to whom" says Hume, the historian, " the title of Great Man is more justly...than to any other whom his country ever produced." He was the inventor of the Logarithms and Robdologice, commonly called " Napier's Bones ;" and likewise... | |
 | 1829 - 434 páginas
...of calculation is so much increased, David Hume, no granter of propositions, declares the title of a great man is more justly due, than to any other whom his country ever produced. Yet the sublime genius which marked, by the logarithmic canon, the correspondence betwixt arithmetical... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 490 páginas
...of calculation is so much increased, David Hume, no grantor of propositions, declares the title of a great man is more justly due, than to any other whom his country ever produced — Yet the sublime genius which marked, by the logarithmic canon, the correspondence betwixt arithmetical... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 484 páginas
...of calculation is so much increased, David Hume, no grantor of propositions, declares the title of a great man is more justly due, than to any other whom his country ever produced Yet the sublime genius which marked, by the logarithmic canon, the correspondence betwixt arithmetical... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 482 páginas
...of calculation is so much increased, David Hume, no grantor of propositions, declares the title of a great man is more justly due, than to any other whom his country ever produced. — Yet the sublime genius which marked, by the logarithmic canon, the correspondence betwixt arithmetical... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 498 páginas
...of calculation is so much increased, David Hume, no grantor of propositions, declares the title of a great man is more justly due, than to any other whom his country ever produced. — Yet the sublime genius which marked, by the logarithmic canon, the correspondence betwixt arithmetical... | |
 | 1836 - 540 páginas
...WITH CHINA J AND FHS EDINBURGH. His Lordship was descended from John Napier*, " to whom," says Hume, " the title of great man is more justly due than to any other whom his country ever produced." John Napier was the inventor of the Logarithms and Robdologice, commonly called " Napier's Bones,"... | |
 | 1836 - 492 páginas
...WITH CHINA; AND FRS EDINBURGH. His Lordship was descended from John Napier*, " to whom," says Hume, " the title of great man is more justly due than to any other whom his country ever produced." John Napier was the inventor of the Logarithms and Robdologice, commonly called " Napier's Bones,"... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 498 páginas
...of calculation is so much increased, David Hume, no grantor of propositions, declares the title of a great man is more justly due, than to any other whom his country ever produced.—Yet the sublime genius which marked, by the logarithmic canon, the correspondence betwixt... | |
 | Sir David Erskine - 1836 - 1142 páginas
...notice under it : — " Napier of Merchistoun, the famous inventor of the Logarithms, the person to whom the title of great man is more justly due than to any other his country ever produced." In the year 1788, the Earl of Buchan came from Kirkhill with Lady Buchan... | |
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Merchiston, son of the famous inventor of the logarithms, the person to whom the title of a "great man" is more justly due, than to any other whom his country ever produced. 
