John Napier: Revision history

4 August 2024

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3 August 2024

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3 July 2024

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1 February 2022

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15 January 2019

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26 August 2017

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5 September 2016

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2 May 2016

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6 February 2016

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• curprev 15:5915:59, 6 February 2016‎ ELApro talk contribs‎ 59,031 bytes +1,274‎ →‎Quotes about Napier: Anders Hald, "A History of Probability and Statistics": Napier considered the synchronized motion of two points..He carried out these cacluations personally..20 years undo
• curprev 15:0015:00, 6 February 2016‎ ELApro talk contribs‎ 57,757 bytes +549‎ →‎Quotes about Napier: Motz, Weaver, "Conquering Mathematics": Napier's book required..intensity of concentration..while Newton's book was packed with tedious geometric axioms..probably..more enjoyable to compose than Napier's mind-numbing treatise undo
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22 January 2015

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18 January 2015

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17 January 2015

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16 January 2015

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