John Napier

John Napier


     John Napier was a Scottish Mathematician who was born in Merchiston

Castle in Edinburgh in the year 1550.  He briefly attended St. Andrew's

University, but for some unknown reason, left without obtaining a degree,

which didn't seem to have any relevance to him.  He returned home in 1571 as

a scholar competent in Greek. He was an ardent Presbyterian who wrote A

Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of Saint John, the first Scottish

interpretation of the bible, in 1593 to demonstrate that the Catholic Church

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