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John Napier (Wikipedia)

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Wikipedia's biography of John Napier, cited for his birth and death dates and his 1614 publication introducing logarithms.

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Citation
Publisher
Wikimedia Foundation
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Napier
Source Type
Encyclopedia
Assessment
Reliability Tier
2
Sources
John Napier (Wikipedia)
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Claims Backed By This Source (21 claims)

This source backs 21 claims across the atlas. As facts: 15 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 1 connected. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Mathematicians, 15 claims: 10 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 4 general references.
  • Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
  • Concepts, 1 claims: 1 connected.

Well-attested

15

Mathematicians

Scholarly debate

1

Mathematicians

Connected

1

Concepts

General References

4

Mathematicians

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