Science, Maths & Technology
John Napier
...perceptible qualities, but (if one may say so) with categories of relationship and qualities of thought. (Quoted in Yu. A. Belyi (1975) ‘Johannes Kepler and the development of mathematics’, in A. Beer and P. Beer (eds), Kepler: Four Hundred Years, Pergamon Press, p. 656.) It is interesting to notice that Kepler felt that the appeal to kinematical intuition in...