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...''John Napier''']] [Neper, Nepair] of Merchiston ([[1550]] – [[4 April]] [[1617]]) was a Scottish landowner known as a [[w:mathematics|mathematician]], [[w ...iggs immediately set to work to calculate tables to a decimal base, and in 1617 he brought out a table of logarithms of the numbers from 1 to 1000 calculat ...

...e said to have been used in very remote times in China, and as far back as 1617, in the collection of travels by {{w|Samuel Purchas}}... But before that da [[Category:1620 deaths]] ...

...HE ANCIENT CITY OF</small> P<small>RAGUE</small>, and this was in the year 1617.<!--p. 398--> ...ms in 1609, and then cast them among the rubbish of his study; in the year 1617 a copy of Napier's Canon is laid, as the wonder of the day, before Kepler h ...

...attista della Porta|Porta]]'' died in 1615, and Dr. ''Wallis'' was born in 1617. So that, in all Probability, here is a great Deduction to be made from the [[Category:1703 deaths]] ...