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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Life and Works of John Napier
  name:
    name part: Rice, Brian.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: González-Velasco, Enrique.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Corrigan, Alexander.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 994 p. 119 illus., 21 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Orthography -- 1. John Napier -- 2. Revealing the Plaine Discovery -- 3. A Plain Discovery -- 4. Mathematical Introduction -- 5. Descriptio -- 6. Rabdologiae -- 7. Constructio -- 8. De Arte Logistica -- 9. Appendices -- 10. Further Reading -- 11. Bibliography of Napier's Works.
  note: by Brian Rice, Enrique González-Velasco, Alexander Corrigan.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Religion
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: History of Mathematical Sciences
  subject:
    topic: History of Religion
  classification: QA21-27
  classification: 510.9
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319532820
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53282-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 170309
    record change date: 20171007031405.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-53282-0