400th anniversary of John Napier coming soon...

Rainy morning at the Merchiston campus of Edinburgh Napier University, followed by an afternoon of glorious sunshine. Captured this student striding toward the historic Merchiston Tower where John Napier was born in 1550.

He was a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, but is most acclaimed for discovering logarithms and making the decimal point hip. The 400th anniversary of his death on April 4th 1617 is fast approaching...