Gregory St. Vincent is the greatest of circle-squarers, and his investigations led him into many truths: he found the property of the arc of the hyperbola which led to Napier's logarithms being called hyperbolic. Montucla says of him, with sly truth, that no one ever squared the circle with so much genius, or, excepting his principal object, with so much success.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Gregory St. Vincent is the greatest of circle-squarers, and his investigations led him into many truths: he found the property of the arc of the hyperbola which led to Napier's logarithms being called hyperbolic. Montucla says of him, with sly truth, that no one ever squared the circle with so much genius, or, excepting his principal object, with so much success." in the context of "Augustus De Morgan, A Budget of Paradoxes, (London, 1872); cited in: Memorabilia mathematica or, The philomath's quotation-book by Robert Edouard Moritz. Published 1914, p. 366." to mean that wisdom is timeless.