Merchiston Academy, housed in the old castle of Napier, the inventor of logarithms, is another institution conducted on English public school lines.

He is now remembered and honored as the inventor of the steamboat.

The founder of a sect or party, or an inventor, impresses us less when we know how or by what the way was prepared for his activity.

This last-named inventor has 3 See V.

His treatises De mensura astrolabii and De utilitatibus astrolabii (to be found, on the authority of Salzburg MSS., in Pez, Thesaurus anecdotorum novissimus, iii.) being the first contributions of moment furnished by a European to this subject, Hermann was for a time considered the inventor of the astrolabe.