 | David Hume - 1807 - 544 Seiten
...of Merchiston, son of the famous inventor of the logarithms, the person to whom the title of CHEAT 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... | |
 | 1809 - 628 Seiten
...Napier, and bestowed upon him the lands of Gosford, and lands in Fife, as a reward for his services. John Napier, " to whom," says Mr. Hume, the celebrated...Logarithms and Robdologice, commonly called " Napier's Bones." He was, likewise, author of a Treatise on the Revelation of St. John. These works will remain... | |
 | David Hume - 1810 - 520 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 1811 - 434 Seiten
...Napier of Merchieston, the famous inventor " of the logarithims, the person to whom the title of a GREAT " MAN is more justly due than to any other whom his country '* ever produced*.'* " His scientifical genius (says another " historian) was first applied to the mysteries of the Apocalypse,... | |
 | David Hume - 1812 - 544 Seiten
...him, was Lord Napier of Merchiston, son of the famous inventer 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. THERH! was in Scotland another party, who, professing equal attachment to the King's service, pretended... | |
 | William Nimmo (minister of Bothkennar.) - 1817 - 804 Seiten
...Merchieston, the immortal inventor of the logarithms, of whom Hume says that he was " the person to whom the title of Great Man, is more justly due, than to any other whom his country ever produced."* He was born in 1550. t Local tradition had named a particular spot, long otherwise obscure, in the... | |
 | John Debrett - 1820 - 828 Seiten
...Napier, and bestowed upon him the lands of Gosford, and lands in Fife, as a reward for his services. John Napier, " to whom," says Mr. Hume, the celebrated historian, " the title of Great Man is more jnstly due, than to any other whom his country ever produced," was the inventor of the Logarithms and... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 502 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1826 - 488 Seiten
...says, (II. 35, ed. 1775,) " The famous inventor of logarithms, is the person to whom the title of a great man is more justly due than to any other whom his country ever produced." The happy idea of Napier, which performs multiplication by addition ; division by subtraction ; the... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 444 Seiten
...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... | |
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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. 
