Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts. A book for old and young (1860)
Timbs, John, 1801-1875 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 141
o his opium. Mr. Hallam, in taking leave of the absurd and men-dacious paradoxes of Paracelsus, sagely observes: Lit-erature is a garden of weeds as well as flowers, and Para-celsus forms a link in the history of opinion which shouldnot be overlooked. If he found hundreds of admirers during his… … John Napier, of Merchiston. From a rare print by Delaram. NAPIERS SECEET INVENTIONS. Few of the results of speculative science have been sosoundly appreciated as the invention of Logarithms, byJohn Napier, early in the seventeenth century. His in-genious and contriving mind did not, however, rest…
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