Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston: His Lineage, Life, and Times, with a History of the Invention of Logarithms |
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This book has a great deal of the Napier family history in it. The pictures are in better shape than the copy in the National Library of Scotland, but the copy there has 2 extra newspaper articles pasted inside the cover. One is the Wizard Lairds of Merchiston article from Scotsman dated 23 Dec 1910 about John Napier and his father. The other is about the sale of the "Napier Bones" from the Dowager Lady Napier estate. The strange thing is the picture on this cover is not John Napier but his cousin Dr. Richard Napier. It's in the book at page 240.
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Page 248 - A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected...
Page 187 - But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Page 325 - Row, vassals, row, for the pride of the Highlands! Stretch to your oars, for the evergreen Pine!
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Page 40 - Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field, Where shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear, And broken was her shield...
Page 188 - Tis therefore a part of this prophecy, that it should not be understood before the last age of the world; and therefore it makes for the credit of the prophecy that it is not yet understood. But if the last age, the age of opening these things, be now approaching, as by the great successes of late interpreters it seems to be, we have more encouragement than ever to look into these things.
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Page 87 - I out in continual reasoning against my said familiar, but also, from thenceforth, I determined with myself (by the assistance of God's Spirit) to employ my studie and diligence to search out the remanent mysteries of that holy book, — as to this houre (praised be the Lorde !) I have bin doing at al such times as conveniently I might have occasion.
Page 407 - Marr herewith, who went into Scotland before Mr. Briggs, purposely to be there when these two so learned persons should meet. Mr. Briggs appoints a certain day when to meet at Edinburgh ; but failing thereof, the lord Napier was doubtful he would not come.
Page 349 - On a fatal day, in the holy season of Lent, Hypatia was torn from her chariot, stripped naked, dragged to the church, and inhumanly butchered by the hands of Peter the reader and a troop of savage and merciless fanatics : her flesh was scraped from her bones with sharp oyster-shells, and her quivering limbs were delivered to the flames.
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| Title | Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston: His Lineage, Life, and Times, with a History of the Invention of Logarithms |
| Author | Mark Napier |
| Publisher | W. Blackwood, 1834 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 30 Jul 2007 |
| Length | 534 pages |
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