 | Charles Hutton - 1785 - 560 sider
...the noble invention of logarithms lately difcovered." And again, " Napier lord of Markinfton hath fet my head and hands at work with his new and admirable logarithms ; I hope to fee him this fummer, if it pleafe God ; for I never faw a book which pleaied me better, and made me... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1785 - 534 sider
...the noble invention of logarithms lately discovered." And again, " Napier lord of Markinfton hath fet my head and hands at work with his new and admirable logarithms ; I hope to fee him this fummer, if it pleafe God ; for I never faw a book which plealed me better, and made me... | |
 | 1787 - 530 sider
...letter to Archbifhop Uiher, in the year 1615, he writes thus, " Napier, Lord of " Merchifton, hath fet my head and " hands at work with his new and " admirable Logarithms. I hope to " fee him this Summer, if it pleafe " God, for I never faw a book which " pleafed me better, and made... | |
 | 1789 - 602 sider
...letter to archbifliop Uflier, in the year 1615, he writes thus, "Napier, " lord of Merchifton, hath fet my " head and hands at work with his " new and admirable logarithms. " I hope to fee him this fummer it " it pleafe God, for I never faw a " book which pleafed me better, and " made... | |
 | 1802 - 442 sider
...applied himself to the study and improvement of them; his words being — "Napier, Lord Merchiston hath set my head and hands at work with his new and admirable logarithms. I hope to see him, next summer, if it please God ; for 1 never saw a book which pleased me better, and made me more wonder."... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - 1805 - 584 sider
...jn a letter to Archbishop Usher, in the year 1615, he writes thus : " Napier, Baron of Merchieston, hath set my head and hands at work with his new and...which pleased me better and made me more wonder." The following passage from the life of Lilly the astrologer is quoted by Lord Buchan, as giving a picturesque... | |
 | John Aikin - 1808 - 730 sider
...Nepeirea ;" and in a letter to archbishop Usher in the year 1514, he says, " Napier lord of Markinston hath set my head and hands at work with his new and...summer, if it please God ; for I never saw a book which • pleastkl me better, and inade me more wonder." ' He also gave the greatest encouragement to •... | |
 | 1809 - 760 sider
...thus of it in the letter above-mentioned. " Naper, Lord of ïlarkiston, hath set my head and bands to work with his new and admirable logarithms.— I hope...for I never saw a book which pleased me better, and truck1 me more wonder.J And he kept his resolution; for when summer came on, in the vt-ai- l(i I'i,... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1811 - 574 sider
...about the noble invention of logarithms, lately discovered." And again, " Napier lord of Markinston hath set my head and hands at work with his new and...which pleased me better, and made me more wonder." Thus we find that Briggs began very early to compute logarithms : but these were not of the same kind... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 494 sider
...it. Briggs, in a letter to archbishop Usher, March 10, 1615, writes thus: "Napier lord of Markinston, hath set my head and hands at work with his new and...better, and made me more wonder." Briggs accordingly paid him the visit, and staid a month with him. The following passage, from the life of Lilly the astrologer,... | |
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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. 
