"We... add the name... of another distinguished historian of science... carried by this groundless pretension, which was probably a villanous though weak attempt to wrest the laurels from the grave of a foreigner. M. Kluegel, in his philosophical dictionary, a work of great ability, records, that"Neper in Scotland, and Jobst Byrg in Germany, were the first who, without any intercommunication, calculated tables of Logarithms." ...But how happened it, we would ask M. Kluegel, that Kepler gave all the glory to Napier, and none to his own countryman? This same author expresses most graphically the enthusiastic zeal with which the legislator of the stars rushed upon the Logarithms; "Kepler ergriff Nepers Erfindung mit Eifer,"—[translation] Kepler seized Napier's discovery with enthusiasm,—now Kepler expressly regards the speculation of Byrgius with contempt."