Brian Rice (Author)
Enrique González-Velasco (Author)
Alexander Corrigan (Author)
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.
...MoreReview David Bellhouse (2018) Review of "The Life and Works of John Napier". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 396-397).
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Gladstone-Millar, Lynne;
(2003)
John Napier: Logarithm John
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Fischer, Joachim;
Ruess, Bärbel;
(2014)
Napier Revisited or a New Look at the Computation of His Logarithms
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Whiteside, D. T.;
(2014)
“And John Napier created logarithms...”
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Clark, Kathleen M.;
Montelle, Clemency;
(2012)
Priority, Parallel Discovery, and Pre-eminence: Napier, Bürgi and the Early History of the Logarithm Relation
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Havil, Julian;
(2014)
John Napier: Life, Logarithms, and Legacy
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Feingold, Mordechai;
Navarro Brotóns, Víctor;
(2006)
Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period
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Stedall, Jacqueline A.;
(2011)
From Cardano's Great Art to Lagrange's Reflections: Filing a Gap in the History of Algebra
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Bruno Jannamorelli;
(2009)
Il Prontuarium di Nepero
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Alex D. D. Craik;
(2017)
An Early Scottish Pamphlet on Hydraulics and Pneumatics: William Welwood's De aqua in altum per fistulas plumbeas facile exprimenda apologia demonstrativa (1582)
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Fleming, H. M.;
(2001)
Scottish Witches and Wizards
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Philip Beeley;
(2020)
‘There Are Great Alterations in the Geometry of Late’. the Rise of Isaac Newton’s Early Scottish Circle
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Kepler, Johannes;
(1993)
Les mille logarithmes, et le Supplément aux mille. Suivi de la Description de la table des logarithmes, par Jean Néper, traduit pour la première fois du latin en français avec des notes par Peyroux, Jean. Suivi du début de L'arithmétique logarithmique de Henri Briggs, traduit au 17e siècle du latin en français par Adrien Vlacq
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Stefano Gattei;
(2015)
The Phoenix and the Architect: The Frontispiece of Kepler's "Tabulae Rudolphinae"
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Pietro Daniel Omodeo;
(2015)
Riflessioni sul moto terrestre nel Rinascimento: tra filosofia naturale, meccanica e cosmologia
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Bruno Almeida;
(2018)
Transmitting Nautical and Cosmographical Knowledge in the 16th and 17th Centuries: The Case of Pedro Nunes
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Riccardo Bellé;
Beatrice Sisana;
(2022)
Galileo Galilei and the centers of gravity of solids: a reconstruction based on a newly discovered version of the conical frustum contained in manuscript UCLA 170/624
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Margherita Palumbo;
(2008)
"Les livres en Hollande sont en perpetuelle circulation...": intorno a un libro appartenuto a Finé e Leibniz
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Dryden, Donald;
(2006)
Mechanisms and Models: An Interpretive Framework for the Study of the Sciences
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Jonkers, Art R. T.;
(2008)
The Pursuit of Magnetic Shadows: The Formal-Empirical Dipole Field of Early-Modern Geomagnetism
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Popper, Nicholas;
(2006)
“Abraham, Planter of Mathematics”: Histories of Mathematics and Astrology in Early Modern Europe
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