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22 Proposition. The Woman clad with the Sunne (chap. 12) is the true Church of God.

— John Napier A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593)

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Any desired geometrical mean between two sines has for its Logarithm the corresponding arithmetical mean between the Logarithms of the sines.

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Whence a geometrically moving point approaching a fixed one has its velocities proportionate to its distances from the fixed one.

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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.

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13 Proposition. Every one of the first three thundering Angels containeth a Jubelee, and then the last foure al at once compleateth the day of judgement.

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19 Proposition. The foure beasts are the foure Evangelles with all the true writers and professors thereof.

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