De arte logistica ... libri qui supersunt [ed. by M. Napier].1839 |
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الصفحة iii - Merchiston, son of the famous inventor of the logarithms, the person to whom the title of GREAT MAN is more justly due, than to any other whom his country ever produced.
الصفحة lxxxvi - 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.
الصفحة xcii - My lord, I have undertaken this long journey purposely to see your person, and to know by what engine of wit or ingenuity you came first to think of this most excellent help into astronomy, viz. the logarithms ; but, my lord, being by you found out, I wonder nobody else found it out before, when now known it is so easy.
الصفحة lxxvii - These Geneses really take Place in the Nature of Things, and are daily seen in the Motion of Bodies.
الصفحة liii - I determined with myselfe (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.
الصفحة lxxviii - I sought a method of determining quantities from the velocities of the motion or increments i with which they are generated ; and calling these velocities of the motions or increments Fluxions, and the generated quantities Fluents, I fell by degrees upon the method of Fluxions, which I have made use of here in the quadrature of curves, in the years 1665 and 1666.