 | Congregationalism - 1824 - 744 pages
...constructing his Logarithms, he wrote to Archbishop Usher as follows: " Napier, Lord of Merchiston, hath , set my head and hands at work with his new and admirable logarithms. I hope to see him this summer, if it please God ; for 1 never saw a book that pleased me better, and made me... | |
 | James Mitchell - Scotland - 1825 - 798 pages
...a letter to Archbishop Usher, March 10th, 1615, writes thus: " Napier, Lord of Markinston, hath set my head and hands at work, with his new and admirable logarithms. I hojie to see him this summer, if it please God; for I never saw a book which pleased me better, and... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...letter to archbishop I'sher, in 1615, he writes thus: — 'Napier, baron of JNIerchiston, liath set my head and hands at work with his new and admirable logarithms. I hope to see him this summer, if it please God ; for I never saw a book which pleased me better, and made me... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Committee on mathematical tables, British association for the advancement of science, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Arthur Cayley, G. G. Stokes, W. Thomson, H.J.S. Smith - Mathematics - 1873 - 186 pages
...Oxford, admired this work so much that he resolved to visit Napier. " Naper, lord of Markinston, hath set my head and hands at work with his new and admirable logarithms. I hope to see him this summer, if it please God ; for I never saw a book which pleased me better, and made me... | |
 | Robert Potts - Arithmetic - 1876 - 392 pages
...Archbishop) Usher, of the date of 10th March, 1615, he writes: "Napier, lord of Markinston, hath set my head and hands at work with his new and admirable logarithms. I hope to see him this summer, if it please God, for I never saw a book which pleased me better and made me more... | |
 | Robert Potts - Arithmetic - 1876 - 389 pages
...Archbishop) Usher, of the date of 10th March, 1615, he writes: "Napier, lord of Markinston, hath set my head and hands at work with his new and admirable logarithms. I hope to see him this summer, if it please God, for I never saw a book which pleased me better and made me more... | |
 | Florian Cajori - Mathematics - 1896 - 336 pages
...67562746 65331315 70439560 67562739 65331304 4 7 11 9999996 9999993 9999989 57 56 55 inston, hath set my head and hands at work with his new and admirable logarithms. I hope to see him this summer, if it please God, for I never saw a book which pleased me better and made me more... | |
 | Leslie Leland Locke - Mathematics - 1909 - 364 pages
...Briggs' own words indicated his admiration for the invention: "Napier, Lord of Markinston, hath set my head and hands at work with his new and admirable logarithms. I hope to see him this summer, if it please God, for I never saw a book which pleased me better and made me more... | |
 | David E. Smith - Mathematics - 1958 - 756 pages
...the work of Napier. Upon reading the Descnptio (1614) he wrote : Naper, lord of Markinston, hath set my head and hands at work with his new and admirable logarithms. I hope to see him this summer, if it please God ; for I never saw a book which pleased me better, and made me... | |
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Napier lord of Markinston, hath set my head and hands at work with his new and admirable logarithms. I hope to see him this summer, if it please God ; for I never saw a book which pleased me better, and made me more wonder. 
