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Seite lxxxix - Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio ; ejusque usus in utraque Trigonometria, ut etiam in omni Logistica Mathematica, amplissimi, facillimi, et expeditissimi Explicatio.
Seite lxxxviii - Napier lord of Markinston, hath set my head and hands at 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, and made me more wonder.
Seite lv - John, as the mother of all spiritual whoredome, that not onely bursted I out in continual reasoning against my said familiar, but also from thenceforth, I determined with my selfe (by the assistance of Gods spirit) to employ my studie and diligence to search out the rémanent mysteries of that holy Book: as to this houre (praised be the Lorde) I have bin doing at al such times as conveniently I might have occasion.
Seite xciv - My lord, I have undertaken this long journey purposely to see your person, and to know by what engine of wit or ingenuity you came first to think of this most excellent help into astronomy, viz. the logarithms ; but, my lord, being by you found out, I wonder nobody else found it out before, when now known it is so easy.
Seite lv - I out in continual reasoning against my said familiar, but also, from thenceforth, I determined with myself (by the assistance of God's Spirit) to employ my studie and diligence to search out the remanent mysteries of that holy book, — as to this houre (praised be the Lorde !) I have bin doing at al such times as conveniently I might have occasion.
Seite lxxx - I sought a method of determining quantities from the velocities of the motion or increments i with which they are generated ; and calling these velocities of the motions or increments Fluxions, and the generated quantities Fluents, I fell by degrees upon the method of Fluxions, which I have made use of here in the quadrature of curves, in the years 1665 and 1666.
Seite lxxix - I consider mathematical quantities in this place not as consisting of very small parts, but as described by a continued motion.