... briefexcursionsthoughcountries, centuries, lives and works, unfolding the storiesofsome remarkablemathematics from some remarkable mathematicians.xxiiiCHAPTERTWOTheHarmonicSeriesMathematicians are ... in a letter dated 10 March 1615 to his friend JamesUssher,hewrote wholly employed about the noble inventionoflogarithms, thenlately discovered Napper, lordofMarkinston, hath set my ... 1590, James VIofScotland (later to becomeJames IofEngland) sailed to Denmark to meet his prospective wife (AnneofDenmark) and was accompanied by his physician, aDrJohn Craig. Appallingweather...