John Napier, seated, wearing a skull cap, his right hand resting on an open book. Line engraving by R. Cooper.

1 print : engraving ; image 31.5 x 23.4 cm

Nobilissimus, cum genere tum scriptis, Joannes Napierus scotus, merchistonij baron: celeberrimus logarithmorum inventor, & c. obijt April 3, 1617, aetat: 67 ; R. Cooper sculp Lettering (motto) within the print reads: In prudentia et simplicitate

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 2121.1

Wellcome Collection 7348i