An Account of the Life, Writings, and Inventions of John Napier, of Merchiston |
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... fame characters are re- prefented by different actors : introduced behind the Scenes , he will fee folly dreffing itself in the garb of wisdom , and felfishness affuming the mask of public ́Spirit ; and among the learned , the plagiary ...
... fame characters are re- prefented by different actors : introduced behind the Scenes , he will fee folly dreffing itself in the garb of wisdom , and felfishness affuming the mask of public ́Spirit ; and among the learned , the plagiary ...
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... fame plan . The first undertaking will furnish me an opportunity , of reprefenting the ancient conflitution of ... fame Quarto fize , and with the fame Type and Paper , they would gradually form the nobleft work , which has been offered ...
... fame plan . The first undertaking will furnish me an opportunity , of reprefenting the ancient conflitution of ... fame Quarto fize , and with the fame Type and Paper , they would gradually form the nobleft work , which has been offered ...
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... fame name , who was Vice Admiral of Scotland , and one of the Commiffioners from king James the third , at the court of London , in the years 1461 and 1464 . FROM the family of Lennox , Earl of Lennox , he derived a coheirship by the ...
... fame name , who was Vice Admiral of Scotland , and one of the Commiffioners from king James the third , at the court of London , in the years 1461 and 1464 . FROM the family of Lennox , Earl of Lennox , he derived a coheirship by the ...
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... Fame . KEPLER had made many unsuccessful attempts to discover his canon for the periodic motions of the planets and hit upon it at last , as he himself candidly owns , on the 15th of May , 1618 ; and Newton ap- plied the palpable ...
... Fame . KEPLER had made many unsuccessful attempts to discover his canon for the periodic motions of the planets and hit upon it at last , as he himself candidly owns , on the 15th of May , 1618 ; and Newton ap- plied the palpable ...
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... fame department . I proceed now to evince more fully the merit of Napier , by giving an account of the state in which he found Arithmetic , and of the be- nefit it received from his difcoveries . SECTION SECTION I CONCERNING ARITHMETIC ...
... fame department . I proceed now to evince more fully the merit of Napier , by giving an account of the state in which he found Arithmetic , and of the be- nefit it received from his difcoveries . SECTION SECTION I CONCERNING ARITHMETIC ...
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abfcifs adjacent afymptote alfo alſo angle arcs Arithmetica arithmetical bafe Briggs Byrgius cafes Canon circular cofines column common logarithms conftruction correfponding counters curve defcending defcribed demonftrated difcovery divifion divifor eaſily EDMUND Gunter equal faid fame fecond feems fegments feries feven fhall fides fign figures fimple fin BC fince fines and tangents firft firſt fluxion folution fome fpherical triangle fquare root fubtangent fubtract fufficient fum and half fupplement fuppofed fyftem garithms half the difference half the fum himſelf hyperbola infinite interfect invention itſelf JOHN NAPIER laft lamella laſt lefs loga logarithmic fines logarithmorum Longomontanus margin Merchifton metical modulus Montucla moſt multiplication muſt Napier natural numbers Neper oblique fpherical oppofite ordinate plane triangle promptuary propofition publiſhed purpoſe quadrant quantity radius refpective Regiomontanus ſpace ſquare tang tangents of half thefe theorem theſe thofe thoſe three fides Trigonometry Tycho Brahe uſe
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Page 17 - Mr. Briggs, to his great contentment.. He brings Mr. Briggs up into my lord's chamber, where almost one quarter of an hour was spent, each beholding other almost with admiration before one word was spoke.
Page 15 - That for the mine and overthrow of man, there were too many devices already framed, which, if he could make to be fewer, he would with all his might endeavour to do ; and that therefore seeing the malice and rancor rooted in the heart of mankind will not suffer them to diminish, by any new conceit of his, the number of them should never be increased.
Page 17 - My Lord, I have undertaken this long journey purposely to see your person, and to know by what engine of wit or ingenuity you came...
Page 16 - Marchiston, made public his logarithms, Mr Briggs, then reader of the astronomy lectures at Gresham College, in London, was so surprised with admiration of them, that he could have no quietness in himself until he had seen...
Page 17 - Napier was doubtful he would not come. It happened one day as John Marr and the lord Napier were speaking of Mr. Briggs ; ' Ah, John,' said Marchiston, ' Mr. Briggs will not now come.
Page 121 - I. The sine of the middle part is equal to the product of the tangents of the adjacent parts.
Page 20 - Minto, that he was interred in the Cathedral Church of St Giles at Edinburgh, on the...
Page 15 - Turks, without the hazard of one Christian. Of this it is said that (upon a wager) he gave proof upon a large plain in Scotland, to the destruction of a great many herds of cattle, and flocks of sheep, whereof some were distant from other half a mile on all sides, and some a whole mile.
Page 16 - Briggs purposely to be there when these two so learned persons should meet. Mr Briggs appoints a certain day when to meet at Edinburgh ; but, failing thereof, Merchiston was fearful he would not come. It happened one day as John Marr and the Lord Napier were speaking of Mr Briggs,