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John Napier of Merchiston ( NAY-pee-ər; Latinized as Ioannes Neper; 1 February 1550 – 4 April 1617), nicknamed Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He was the 8th Laird of Merchiston. (From Wikipedia) More about John Napier:
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15 additional books about John Napier in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) John Napier and the invention of logarithms, 1614; a lecture (University Press, 1914), by Ernest William Hobson (page images at HathiTrust)- Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston : his lineage, life, and times, with a history of the invention of logarithms (W. Blackwood; [etc., etc.], 1834), by Mark Napier (page images at HathiTrust)
- Napier tercentenary memorial volume (Pub. for the Royal society of Edinburgh, by Longmans, Green and company, 1915), by Cargill Gilston Knott (page images at HathiTrust)
- An account of the life, writings, and inventions of John Napier, of Merchiston (Printed by R. Morison, junr. for R. Morison and son and sold by G.G.J. and J. Robinson, London, 1787), by David Stewart Erskine Buchan and Walter Minto (page images at HathiTrust)
- Merchiston castle and John Napier. ([Edinburgh?] : [publisher not identified], [1913], 1913), by George Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
- Modern instruments and methods of calculation; a handbook of the Napier tercentenary exhibition (G. Bell and Sons, Ltd.;and, 1914), by E. M. Horsburgh and Scotland) Napier Tercentenary Exhibition (1914 : Edinburgh (page images at HathiTrust)
- The construction of the wonderful canon of logarithms (W. Blackwood and sons, 1889), by John Napier and William Rae Macdonald (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ocherk istorii logarifmov. (Nauchnoe knigoizdatelʹstvo, 1923), by J. V. Uspensky (page images at HathiTrust)
- Napier tercentenary memorial volume (Pub. for the Royal society of Edinburgh, by Longmans, Green and company, 1915), by Cargill Gilston Knott (page images at HathiTrust)
- Zur basisbestimmung der Napierschen und Bürgischen logarithmen (Kreis & Co., 1919), by Otto Mautz (page images at HathiTrust)
- Handbook of the exhibition of Napier relics and of books, instruments, and devices for facilitating calculation. (Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1914), by E. M. Horsburgh, Royal Society of Edinburgh, and Edinburgh Napier Tercentenary Exhibition (page images at HathiTrust)
- John Napier's werken. (J. Müller, 1899), by Nicolaas Lambertus Willem Anthonie Gravelaar (page images at HathiTrust)
- Napier and the invention of logarithms. (Royal philosophical society of Glasgow, 1914), by George A. Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Modern instruments and methods of calculation, a handbook of the Napier tercentenary exhibition (G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. and Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1915), by E. M. Horsburgh (page images at HathiTrust)
- Modern instruments and methods of calculation; a handbook of the Napier tercentenary exhibition (G. Bell and Sons, Ltd.;and, 1914), by E. M. Horsburgh and Scotland) Napier Tercentenary Exhibition (1914 : Edinburgh (page images at HathiTrust)
Books by John Napier: Additional books by John Napier in the extended shelves:- Napier, John, 1550-1617: Arithmetica logarithmica sive Logarithmorum chiliades centum, pro numeris naturali serie crescentibus ab unitate ad 100000 : una cum canone triangulorum sen tabula artificialium sinuum, tangentium & secantium ad radium 10,00000,00000 & ad singula scrupula prima quadrantis ... (excudebat Petrus Rammasenius, 1628), also by Henrique Herbery, Pieter Rammazeyn, Adriaan Vlacq, and Henry Briggs (page images at HathiTrust)
- Napier, John, 1550-1617: The bloody almanack:: to which England is directed, to fore-know what shall come to passe, / by that famous astrologer, M. John Booker. Being a perfect abstract of the prophecies proved out of Scripture, by the noble Napier, Lord of Marchistoun in Scotland. (London : Printed for Anthony Vincent, and are to be sold in the Old-Baily, 1643), also by John Booker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Napier, John, 1550-1617: The Bloody almanack wherein is contained : ... the King of Scots new game in France, together with his desires to forreign princes ... concerning the landing of an English army in France ; the time and manner of a great battel to be fought : the engagement of the Scotch King, with the event and success thereof : with other notes ... touching the strange lightnings and apparitions that will be seen in the ayr this year ... (London : Printed by R. Wood, for G. Horton, 1651), also by John Booker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Napier, John, 1550-1617: Breve compendio di fortificatione moderna (Per Filippo Ghisolfi, 1639), also by Giuseppe Barca (page images at HathiTrust)
- Napier, John, 1550-1617: The construction of the wonderful canon of logarithms (W. Blackwood and sons, 1889), also by William Rae Macdonald (page images at HathiTrust)
- Napier, John, 1550-1617: De arte logistica Joannis Naperi Merchistonii baronis libri qui supersunt. ([s.n.], 1839), also by Mark Napier (page images at HathiTrust)
- Napier, John, 1550-1617: Enneades arithmeticæ, the numbring nines, or, Pythagoras his table extended to all whole numbers under 10000 and the numbring rods of the Right Honourable John Lord Nepeer : enlarged with 9999 fixt columns or rods, of single, double, triple, and quadruple figures, and with a new sort of double and moveable rods, for the much more sure, plain and easie performance of multiplication, division, and extraction of roots ... (London : Printed for Joseph Moxon ..., 1684), also by Pythagoras (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Napier, John, 1550-1617: Mirifici logarithmorum canonis constructio; et eorum ad naturales ipsorum numeros habitudines; una cum appendice ... una cum annotationibus ... (A. Hermann, 1895), also by Henry Briggs (page images at HathiTrust)
- Napier, John, 1550-1617: Mirifici logarithmorvm cannonis constrvctio; et eorvm ad natvrales ipsorum numeros habitudines (Lvgdvni, 1895), also by Henry Briggs (page images at HathiTrust)
- Napier, John, 1550-1617: Plaine discovery of the whole Revelation of Saint John (London : Printed by R.O. and G.D. for Giles Calvert, 1641 [i.e. 1642]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
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