John Napier

John Napier of Merchiston (1550–1617)—also signed as Neper, Nepair—named Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer and astrologer.

External links

• O’Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., “John Napier”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Napier.html .