Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550–1617)
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He invented the mathematical tool that turned multiplication into addition — logarithms — and in doing so gave astronomers, navigators, and engineers centuries of faster calculation before the first computer switched on.
John Napier was born 1 February 1550 at Merchiston Tower in Edinburgh, the 8th Laird of Merchiston and a Scottish landowner who spent his life working the edges of mathematics and astronomy. He discovered logarithms, a breakthrough that collapsed complex computation into something manageable by hand. He also invented Napier's bones, a calculating device, and championed the decimal point in arithmetic — small moves that reshaped how numbers were written and used. Nicknamed Marvellous Merchiston, he died 4 April 1617, leaving behind tools that outlasted him by centuries. His birthplace is now pa…
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10 Proposition. The last Trumpet and Viall beginneth anno Christe 1541 and should end in anno Christi 1786.
The First Proposition. In propheticall dates of daies, weekes, moneths, and yeares, everie common propheticall day is taken for a yeare.
2. Proposition. The Seven Trumpets of the 8. and 9. chapters, and the Seven Vials of the 16. Chapter, are all one.
4 Proposition. The kinges of the East, or four Angels, specified in the sixt trumpet, or sixt vial. Cap. 9. & 16.
5 Proposition. The space of the fift trumpet or vial containeth 245. years, and so much also, every one of the rest of the trumpets or vials doe containe.
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