General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . ANTVERPI^ PICTOR FLORVM ET RVRALIVM FR05PECTVVM. , int van Jhtk frat a^tt ffft-tt. B R I ( ^99 ) B R I for many years. In one of these, published inthe collection of the archbishops letters, London^1686, it appears that in 1615 ^^ was engagedon the subject of eclipses ; and in the latter heinforms his friend (Marcli 10, 1615), that hewas wholly employed about tlie noble inven-tion of logarithms tlien lately discovered
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . ANTVERPI^ PICTOR FLORVM ET RVRALIVM FR05PECTVVM. , int van Jhtk frat a^tt ffft-tt. B R I ( ^99 ) B R I for many years. In one of these, published inthe collection of the archbishops letters, London^1686, it appears that in 1615 ^^ was engagedon the subject of eclipses ; and in the latter heinforms his friend (Marcli 10, 1615), that hewas wholly employed about tlie noble inven-tion of logarithms tlien lately discovered. ForBriggs immediately set to work to extend andimprove this most useful invention. He explainedthe theory to his auditors at Gresham-college;and in those lectures he proposed an alteration inthe scale of logarithms, from the hyperbolic formof Napier to that in which i should be the lo-garithm of the ratio of 10 to i. A short timeafterwards he wrote to lord Napier to make thesame proposal; and in 1616 he made a journeyto Scotland, expressly to confer with him onthis subject, which visit he repeated the follow-ing year. William Lilly the famous asfrologcr,in his history of his life and times, gives an in-teresting account of the meeting of these twogrea
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