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" 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... "
An Account of the Life, Writings, and Inventions of John Napier, of Merchiston - Page 16
by David Stewart Erskine Earl of Buchan, Walter Minto - 1787 - 134 pages
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The Lives of Those Eminent Antiquaries Elias Ashmole, Esquire, and Mr ...

Elias Ashmole - Antiquarians - 1774 - 422 pages
...(GeleberrimeArmigerJ) non te fugit ; and therefore I will acquaint you with one memorable ftory related unto me by Mr. John Marr, an excellent mathematician and geometrician, whom I conceive you remember : he was fervant tp King James and Charles the Firft. At firft, when the Lord Napier, or Marchifton made publick his...
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The Edinburgh Magazine, Or, Literary Miscellany, Volume 6

Books and bookselling - 1787 - 530 pages
...Mercliilton i ear Edinburgh, I fliall fet it down in the original words of that mountebank knave : •' I will acquaint you with one memorable ftory, related...Firft and Charles the Firft. When Merchifton firft publiflied his Logarithms, Mr BHggs, then reader of the Aftronomy Lectures at Grelham College in London,...
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The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History ..., Volume 9

English poetry - 1789 - 602 pages
...Merchifton near Edinhurgh, I íhall fet it down in the original words of thai mountebank knave. •' I will acquaint you with one memorable ftory, related...conceive you remember. He was fervant to king James I. and Charles I. When Merchifton firft publifhed his logarithms, Mr. Briggs, then reader of the aítronomy...
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The Beauties of Scotland: Containing a Clear and Full Account of the ...

Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 584 pages
...logarithms, at Merchieston near Edinburgh. " I will acquaint you (says Lilly) with one memorable story related unto me by John Marr, an excellent mathematician...geometrician, whom I conceive you remember. He was servant to King James the First and Charles the First when Merchieston first published his logarithms....
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General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most ..., Volume 7

John Aikin - Biography - 1808 - 730 pages
...these two illustrious men. " I will acquaint you," says Lilly, " with one memorable story related to me by John Marr, an excellent mathematician and geometrician, whom I conceive you remember. He was servant to king James I. and king Charles I. Whea Marchiston first made public his logarithms, Mr....
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The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ..., Volume 23

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 494 pages
...meeting of those two illustrious men. "I will acquaint you," says Lilly, "with one memorable story related unto me by John Marr, an excellent mathematician...geometrician, whom I conceive you remember. He was servant to king James and Charles the First. At first when the lord Napier, or Marchiston, made public...
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A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary: Containing an ..., Volume 2

Charles Hutton - Astronomy - 1815 - 686 pages
...the meeting of those two illustrious men. " I will acquaint you (says Lilly) with one memorable story related unto me by John Marr, an excellent mathematician...geometrician, whom I conceive you remember. He was servant to King James and Charles the First. At first when the lord Napier, or Marchiston, made public...
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American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of ..., Volume 8

William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 356 pages
...meeting of those two illustrious men. " I will acquaint you (says Lilly) with one memorable story, related unto me by John Marr, an excellent mathematician...geometrician, whom I conceive you remember. He was servant to King James and Charles I. At first, when the Lord Napier, or Merchiston, made public his...
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British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ..., Volume 8

William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 358 pages
...the meeting of those twoillustrious men. " I will acquaint you (says Lilly) with one memorable story, related unto me by John Marr, an excellent mathematician...geometrician, whom I conceive you remember. He was servant to King James and Charles I. At first, when the Lord Napier, or Merchiston, made public his...
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Publications, Issue 62

Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, Scotland) - Scotland - 1839 - 288 pages
...cordially returned. " I will acquaint you," says Lilly, in his Life and Times, " with one memorable story related unto me by John Marr, an excellent mathematician...geometrician, whom I conceive you remember. He was servant to James I. and Charles I. When Merchiston first published his Logarithms, Mr Briggs, then...
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