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    John Napier of Merchiston (/ˈneɪpiər/ NAY-pee-ər; Latinized as Ioannes Neper; 1 February 1550 – 4 April 1617), nicknamed Marvellous Merchiston, was a...
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    John Napier Wyndham Turner PC CC QC (June 7, 1929 – September 19, 2020) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 17th prime minister of...
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    Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GBE, PC (12 August 1868 – 1 April 1933), styled the Lord Chelmsford until 1921...
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    William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier, Baron Napier (Chinese: 律勞卑) FRSE (13 October 1786 – 11 October 1834) was a British Royal Navy officer and trade envoy...
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    Napier's bones is a manually operated calculating device created by John Napier of Merchiston, Scotland for the calculation of products and quotients...
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    Admiral Sir Charles John Napier KCB GOTE (6 March 1786 – 6 November 1860) was a British naval officer whose sixty years in the Royal Navy included service...
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  • and philosopher John Napier. The technical college was inaugurated as a university in 1992 by Lord Douglas-Hamilton, becoming Napier University. In 2009...
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  • John Napier (1550–1617) was a Scottish mathematician, physicist and astronomer. John Napier may also refer to: John Light Napier (born 1947), U.S. Representative...
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    The method of logarithms was publicly propounded for the first time by John Napier in 1614, in his book entitled Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio...
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    John Napier (born 1 March 1944) is a set designer for Broadway and London theatrical performances. John Napier was born in London. He studied at Hornsey...
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  • John Russell Napier, MRCS, LRCP, D.Sc. (11 March 1917 – 29 August 1987) was a British primatologist, paleoanthropologist, and physician, who is notable...
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    Sir Walter John Napier (10 July 1857 – 14 February 1945) was an English barrister who was the fourth Attorney-General of the Straits Settlements and the...
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    {\displaystyle \gamma } . Alternatively, e can be called Napier's constant after John Napier. The Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli discovered the constant...
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  • Robert Napier may refer to: Robert Napier (engineer) (1791–1876), Scottish marine engineer Sir Robert Napier (judge) (died 1615), English judge, Member...
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  • Jack Napier may refer to: Jack Napier (actor) Joker (Jack Napier), the real name of the Joker in the 1989 film Batman John Napier (disambiguation) This...
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    John Napier (born December 12, 1986) is an American bobsled driver and a soldier in the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program. He won the two-man event...
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    men were executed as warlocks. In his day, the Scottish mathematician John Napier (1550–1617) was often perceived as a warlock or magician because his...
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    Lord Napier (1758–1823) William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier (1786–1834) Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier, 1st Baron Ettrick (1819–1898) William John George...
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    Logarithm (redirect from Napier logarithm)
    is frequently used in computer science. Logarithms were introduced by John Napier in 1614 as a means of simplifying calculations. They were rapidly adopted...
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  • choreographer Arlene Phillips was brought on board along with the designer John Napier, who suggested staging the show on roller skates. In 1983, the first...
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    Retrieved May 20, 2015. Krantz, 301–04 Napier, 205 – 2nd printing Napier, 95 Napier, 90–94 Napier, 94 Napier, 126 Wasson, 72–76, 78–79 Wylie, Bigfoot:...
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  • 1889 when Manchester barrister Walter John Napier joined English solicitor Alfred Henry Drew. In 2000, Drew & Napier formed into a limited liability company...
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  • John Russell Napier (5 January 1859 – 12 March 1939) was an English clergyman and a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University...
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  • Barbara Napier or Naper was a Scottish woman involved in the 1591 North Berwick witch trials. Details of charges against her survive, and she was found...
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    half-brother of the mathematician John Napier. He was born in Merchiston Castle the third son of the second marriage of Archibald Napier, 7th laird of Merchiston...
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    Apart from a number of other books and pamphlets, Wright translated John Napier's pioneering 1614 work which introduced the idea of logarithms from Latin...
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    came to fruition in Early Modern times with important developments by John Napier, Delambre and others, and attained an essentially complete form by the...
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    Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier and 1st Baron Ettrick, KT, PC (15 September 1819 – 19 December 1898) was a British polyglot, diplomat and colonial administrator...
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  • John Napier (born 1946), footballer, birth name Robert John Napier John Light Napier (born 1947), U.S. Representative from South Carolina John Napier...
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  • Robert John Napier (born 23 September 1946) is a Northern Irish former football centre half and manager, who currently teaches soccer in San Diego, California...
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