 | David Irving - English poetry - 1804 - 462 pages
...Napier, the celebrated inventor of the logarithms ; 96 to whom, as Mr Hume affirms, the title of a great man is more justly due than to any other whom his country has ever produced c. Mr Pinkerton certainly considered the poems of Drummond as worthy of preservation... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 544 pages
...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... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 520 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1812 - 544 pages
...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1813 - 278 pages
...and lands in Fife, as a reward for his services. John Napier, " to who*!,'" says Mr. Hume, " the tHk of Great Man is more justly due than to any other...produced, was the inventor of the Logarithms, and Rabdologice, commonly called ' Napier's Bones." " He was, likewise, author of a treatise on the Revela^... | |
 | William Nimmo (minister of Bothkennar.) - 1817 - 804 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1826 - 488 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1826 - 502 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
