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John Napier

American bobsledder

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Occupation: bobsledder
Citizenship: United States
Born: December 12, 1986

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John Napier (born December 12, 1986) is an American bobsled driver and a soldier in the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program. He won the two-man event at the 2009 U.S. National Bobsled Championships with Cory Butner. At the 2009 FIBT World Championships, he placed 17th in the two-man event with T.J. Burns and 11th in the four-man event with Jesse Beckom, Jamie Moriarty, and Nick Cunningham. At the 2009–10 Bobsleigh World Cup event in Lake Placid, New York, he won the two-man event with Charles Berkeley and the silver medal in the four-man event with Jamie Moriarty, Steven Langton, and Christopher Fogt Napier began competing in 1994 and became a member of the U.S. national team in 2002. His parents were both bobsledders; his father, William Napier, was a former president of the U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton Federation. Napier enlisted in the Vermont Army National Guard in June 2007 and joined the World Class Athlete Program in May, 2008. It was announced on January 17, 2010, that he made the US team in the two-man and four-man events for the 2010 Winter Olympics. He finished tenth in the two-man event while crashing out in the four-man event.

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“If a first sine be multiplied into a second producing a third, the Logarithm of the first added to the Logarithm of the second produces the Logarithm of the third. So in division, the Logarithm of the divisor subtracted from the Logarithm of the dividend leaves the Logarithm of the quotient.”
— Appendix, The relations of Logarithms & their natural numbers to each other
“And if any number of equals to a first sine be multiplied together producing a second, just so many equals to the Logarithm of the first added together produce the Logarithm of the second.”
— Appendix, The relations of Logarithms & their natural numbers to each other
“Any desired geometrical mean between two sines has for its Logarithm the corresponding arithmetical mean between the Logarithms of the sines.”
— Appendix, The relations of Logarithms & their natural numbers to each other
“From every line of his descent talent seems to have flowed in upon John Napier.”
— Mark Napier, Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston" (1834)
“You have then (kind Reader) in this little book most amply unfolded the theory of the construction of logarithms, (here called by him artificial numbers, for he had this treatise written out beside him several years before the word Logarithm was invented,) in which their nature, characteristics, and various relations to their natural numbers, are clearly demonstrated.”
— Robert Napier, "Greeting to the Reader" (1619)
“In 1563, the year of his mother's death, John was sent to the University of St. Andrews, the mother university of Scotland. He was only thirteen, but this was the usual age at which lads then entered the universities.”
— , "John Napier of Merchiston"

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