"If a hint could have urged any human mind thus rapidly upon the theory of the Logarithms, there was a hint which arose in the , which was submerged in the middle ages, and rose again with the letters of Greece; which Tycho had — which Stifellius, Byrgius [Bürgi], Longomontanus, and above all which Kepler had—and all made no more of it than Archimedes had done."