by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Napier… (1823)
“ Is descended from John Napier, “to whom” says Hume, the historian, “the title of Great Man is more justly due, than to any other whom his country ever produced.” He was the inventor of the Logarithms and Robdologice, commonly called “Napier’s Bones;” and likewise author of a “Treatise on the Revelation of St. John.” These works will remain lasting monuments of his sublime judgment, knowledge, and penetration. His only son by his first wife was created a Scotch peer, by the title of Baron Napier, May 4, 1627. ”
