Moonrise Through A Graveyard's Trees.

The gibbous Moon peeks through a grove of trees in the grounds belonging to St. Cuthbert's church, and it is here where the mathematician John Napier was laid to rest.

In 1614, he published Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, in whose pages explanations and tables of natural logarithms were laid out in definitive form. Logarithms are a mathematical tool which allow easier computions of complex calculations, such as those used to predict the motions of celestial bodies both natural and artificial in accordance with Newton's theory of Universal Gravitation; calculations which helped make the exploration of The Moon and other planets possible.

It is fitting therefore that on that same Moon seen through those trees there is a crater named after him.