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            | Article Name : |  |  | COLIN MACKENZIE AND HIS TREMENDOUS COLLECTIONS |  | Author Name : |  |  | Dr. A.Vadivel |  | Publisher : |  |  | Ashok Yakkaldevi |  | Article Series No. : |  |  | ROR-11259 |  | Article : |  |  |  | Author Profile |  | Abstract : |  |  | Even as a youth Mackenzie displayed great avidity for mathematical knowledge and was on that account employed by Lord Napier of Merchistoun who was then engaged in writing a life of his ancestor, John Napier, the inventor of logarithms. |  | Keywords : |  |  |  |  |  |  |