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English: Portrait of John Napier (1550-1617), the inventor of logarithms; dated 1616; presented to the University of Edinburgh by his great granddaughter Margaret, who became Baroness Napier in 1686.
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Other versions Engraving (1835) after this portrait

John Napier

aus: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/PictDisplay/Napier.html

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