The life and works of John Napier / Brian Rice, Enrique González-Velasco, Alexander Corrigan.
Rice, Brian, author.; González-Velasco, Enrique A., author.; Corrigan, Alexander, author.
2017
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Title The life and works of John Napier / Brian Rice, Enrique González-Velasco, Alexander Corrigan.
Author Rice, Brian, author.
ISBN 9783319532820 (electronic book)
3319532820 (electronic book)
9783319532813
3319532812
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53282-0
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017].
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-53282-0 doi
Call Number QA29.N2
Dewey Decimal Classification 510.92
Summary For the first time, all five of John Napier’s works have been brought together in English in a single volume, making them more accessible than ever before. His four mathematical works were originally published in Latin: two in his lifetime (1550–1617), one shortly after he died, and one over 200 years later. The authors have prepared three introductory chapters, one covering Napier himself, one his mathematical works, and one his religious work. The former has been prepared by one of Napier’s descendants and contains many new findings about Napier’s life to provide the most complete biography of this enigmatic character, whose reputation has previously been overshadowed by rumour and speculation. The latter has been written by an academic who was awarded a PhD for his thesis on Napier at the University of Edinburgh, and it provides the most lucid and coherent coverage available of this abstruse and little understood work. The chapter on Napier’s mathematical texts has been authored by an experienced and respected academic, whose recent works have specialised in the history of mathematics and whose Journey through Mathematics was selected in March of 2012 as an Outstanding Title in Mathematics by Choice magazine, a publication of the American Library Association. All three authors have revisited the primary sources extensively and deliver new insights about Napier and his works, whilst revising the many myths and assumptions that surround his life and character.
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Corrigan, Alexander, author.
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ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; A NOTE ON ORTHOGRAPHY; JOHN NAPIER; JOHN NAPIER; NAPIER'S ANCESTRY; EDUCATION AND MARRIAGE; CIVILWAR; RELIGION; SUPERSTITION, ALCHEMY AND INVENTION; FAMILY ISSUES; LOGARITHMS; CALCULATING TOOLS; PUBLICATION; NAPIER'S DEATH; EDINBURGH & GARTNESS; MERCHISTON TOWER; NAPIER'S DESCENDANTS; THE NAPIER FAMILY TREE; REVEALING THE PLAINE DISCOVERY; REVEALING THE PLAINE DISCOVERY; DESCRIPTION AND KEY FEATURES OF THE PLAINE DISCOVERY; HISTORICAL CONTEXT; EXILE, REFORMATION AND CIVILWAR; CONTEMPORARY CRISES; CONTENT OF THE PLAINE DISCOVERY

NAPIER ON ROMAN CATHOLICISMTHE CHRONOLOGY; SEVEN SEALS; SEVEN TRUMPETS THUNDERING ANGEL'S JUBILEES; THE MILLENNIUM OF SATAN'S BINDING AND ANTICHRIST'S REIGN; NAPIER'S CALCULATIONS ON THE END OF THEWORLD; FINDING NAPIER IN THE; LEGACY; CONCLUSION; A PLAINE DISCOVERY OF THE WHOLE REVELATION OF S. IOHN; To the Godly and Christian Reader; THE FIRST AND INTRODVCTORY TREATISE, CONTAINING; THE FIRST PROPOSITION; 2. PROPOSITION; 3. PROPOSITION; 4. PROPOSITION; 5. PROPOSITION; 6. PROPOSITION; 7. PROPOSITION; 8. PROPOSITION; 9. PROPOSITION; 10. PROPOSITION; 11. PROPOSITION; 12. PROPOSITION

13. PROPOSITION14. PROPOSITION; 15. PROPOSITION; 16. PROPOSITION; 17. PROPOSITION; 18. PROPOSITION; 19. PROPOSITION; 20. PROPOSITION; 21. PROPOSITION; 22. PROPOSITION; 23. PROPOSITION; 24. PROPOSITION; 25. PROPOSITION; 26. PROPOSITION; 27. PROPOSITION; 28. PROPOSITION; 29. PROPOSITION; 30. PROPOSITION; 31. PROPOSITION; 32. PROPOSITION; 33. PROPOSITION; 34. PROPOSITION; 35. PROPOSITION; 36. PROPOSITION; CONCLVSION; A TABLE DEFINITIVE AND; THE SECOND; CHAP. I. THE ARGVMENT; The paraphrasticall Exposition; Notes, Reasons, and amplifications; CHAP. II. THE ARGVMENT; The paraphrasticall Exposition

Notes, Reasons, and AmplificationsCHAP. III. THE ARGVMENT; The paraphrasticall exposition; Notes, Reasons, and Amplifications; CHAP. IIII. THE ARGVMENT; The paraphrastical exposition; Notes, Reasons, and Amplifications; CHAP. V. THE ARGVMENT; The Paraphrastical Exposition; Notes, Reasons, and Amplifications; CHAP. VI. THE ARGVMENT; Historical application; Notes, Reasons and Amplifications; CHAP. VII. THE ARGVMENT; The Paraphrasticall exposition; Notes, Reasons, and Amplifications; CHAP. VIII. THE ARGVMENT; Notes, Reasons, and Amplifications; CHAP. IX. THE ARGVMENT

Notes, Reasons, and AmplificationsCHAP. X. ARGVMENT; The Paraphrastical exposition; Notes, Reasons, and Amplifications; CHAP. XI. THE ARGVMENT; PARAPHRASE; Notes Reasones and Amplifications; CHAP. XII. THE ARGVMENT; Notes, Reasons, and Amplifications; CHAP. XIII. THE ARGVMENT; Notes, Reasons, and Amplisications; CHAP. XIIII. THE ARGVMENT; MATHEMATICAL INTRODUCTION; NAPIER'S QUEST TO REMOVE THE LABOUR AND TEDIUM OF CALCULATIONS; PART I. LOGARITHMS; THE RADICAL TABLE; THE TABLE OF LOGARITHMS; NEW LOGARITHMS BY HENRY BRIGGS; THE QUESTION OF PRIORITY; PART II. MECHANICAL DEVICES; NAPIER'S BONES

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