...the expressions of the historian Hume) " The celebrated Inventor of Logarithms, the person to whom the title of GREAT MAN is more justly due than to any other whom his country ever produced," — were added as an appendix to a new edition of his Life. I have been induced, however, to publish...

...is confirmed by sundry of my old evidences, wherein we are called LENOX alias XAPIEH.'* John Xapier, "to whom, "says Mr. Hume, the celebrated historian,...produced," was the inventor of the Logarithms and Robdologice, commonh called "Napier's Bones." rle was likewise author of a " Treatise on the Revelation...

...him, was Lord Napier of Merchiston, son of the famous inventor of the logarithms, the person to whom the title of GREAT MAN is more justly due, than to any other whom his country ever produced. There was in Scotland another party, who professing equal attachment to the king's service, pretended...

...birth place of John Napier the inventor of the Logarithms, to whom, according to Hume, the title of a great man is more justly due than to any other whom his country ever produced. The ancestors of the great Scottish philosopher were intimately connected with Edinburgh. The three...

...Merchiston, son of the famous inventor of the logarithms, the person to whom the title of GREAT MAX is more justly due, than to any other whom his country ever produced. There was in Scotland another party, who professing equal attachment to the king's service, pretended...

...Napier of 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. There was in Scotland another party, who, professing equal attachment to the king's service, pretended...

...Napier of 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. There, was in Scotland another party, who, professing equal attachment to the king's service, pretended...

...Isaac Newton : — of Napier, " the " person to whom," according to Hume, " the title of Great " Han is more justly due than to any other whom his country " ever produced ;" and of Newton, " whose glory it was to " have led the way in sublime discovery, and to have im"...

...of logarithms, and of Sir Isaac Newton: — of Napier, "the " person to whom," according to Hume, " the title of Great " Man is more justly due than to any other whom his country " ever produced ;" and of Newton, " whose glory it was to " have led the way in sublime discovery, and to have im"...

...him, was lord Napier of Merchiston, son of the famous inventor of the logarithms, the person to whom the title of GREaT MAN is more justly due, than to any other whom his country ever produced. There was in Scotland another party, who, professing equal attachment to the king's service, pretended...