John Napier and the mathematics of the ‘middle future’ apocalypse
This article explores the notion of ‘middle future’ apocalypticism through the work of the late sixteenth-century Scottish theologian and the discoverer of logarithms, John Napier. Middle future apocalypticism envisaged the end of the world, not in the immediate or far distant future but (rather lik...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2010
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Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2010, Volume: 63, Issue: 1, Pages: 54-69 |
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