. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. urgh in 1593 ; in the dedication of which to theking, he urged his majesty to attend to the en-forcement of the laws and the protection of reli-gion, beginning reformation in his own house,family, and court. From this work it appearsthat, amidst his various mathematical specula-tions, Napier paid some attention also to the cul-tivation of poetry, for prefixed is a metrical ad- NAPIER, 245 JOHN. dress to Antichrist, and certain versified prophe-cies out of the Oracles of S
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. urgh in 1593 ; in the dedication of which to theking, he urged his majesty to attend to the en-forcement of the laws and the protection of reli-gion, beginning reformation in his own house,family, and court. From this work it appearsthat, amidst his various mathematical specula-tions, Napier paid some attention also to the cul-tivation of poetry, for prefixed is a metrical ad- NAPIER, 245 JOHN. dress to Antichrist, and certain versified prophe-cies out of the Oracles of Sybilla are same year (1593) he was chosen by the Gen-eral Assembly one of the commissioners appointedto assemble at Edinburgh to counteract the de-signs of the Roman Catholics for the overthrowof the Reformed faith, then recently 1596 he published a Letter to Anthony Ba-con, (brother of Lord Bacon,) entitled Secret In-ventions, profitable and necessary in these daysfor the Defence of this Island, and withstandingStrangers, Enemies to Gods Truth and portrait is subjoined 4C^I§k$. Napier had for several years directea his inqui-ries to the discovery of a short and expeditiousmethod of calculation, to facilitate the solution oftrigonometrical problems, and at length his effortswere crowned with the most complete 1614 he produced his book of Logarithms, bywhich the science of astronomy and the arts ofpractical geometry and navigation have been won-derfully aided and advanced. The work, entitledMirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, wasdedicated to Prince Charles, afterwards Charles T. This important discovery soon made his nameknown all over Europe, and Kepler dedicated hisEphemerides to the inventor of the Logarithms,considering him the greatest mathematician of hisage. In his last work, styled Rabdologiae, senNumeratio per Virgulas, in two books, publishedin 1617, Napier describes a method of performingthe operations of mult
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