“The First Proposition. In propheticall dates of daies, weekes, moneths, and yeares, everie common propheticall day is taken for a yeare.”

—  John Napier

A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593), The First and Introductory Treatise

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Scottish mathematician 1550–1617

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