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<p><b>John Napier of Merchiston</b> ( ; <a href="page.php?w=Latinisation_of_names">Latinized</a> as <b>Ioannes Neper</b>; 1 February 1550&nbsp;- 4 April 1617), nicknamed <b>Marvellous Merchiston</b>, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist and <a href="page.php?w=astronomer">astronomer</a>. He was the 8th <a href="page.php?w=Laird">Laird</a> of <a href="page.php?w=Merchiston">Merchiston</a>. Napier is best known as the discoverer of <a href="page.php?w=logarithm">logarithm</a>s. He also invented the <a href="page.php?w=Napier%27s_bones">Napier's bones</a></p><p>
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