Quotations

Henry Briggs


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Napper, lord of Markinston, hath set my head and hands a 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 or made me more wonder.
Briggs in a letter to James Ussher after reading Napier's work on logarithms