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65. NAPIER, John / LOCATELLO, Marco Tr, Raddologgia, Overo Arimmetica Virgolare In D napier, john / LOCATELLO, Marco tr Raddologgia, overo Arimmetica Virgolare in duelibri divisa con appresso un espeditissimo Prontuario della Molteplicatione http://www.polybiblio.com/marta/3154.html

Martayan Lan, Inc. NAPIER, John / LOCATELLO, Marco tr Verona Angelo Tamo 1623 Rare first Italian edition (first 1617) of the first description and explanation of the use of “Napier’s Bones”, an automatic calculating device of interest in the history of computing, designed by the inventor of the logarithm. This item is listed on Bibliopoly by Martayan Lan, Inc. ; click here for further details.

66. NAPIER, John., Rabdologiae, Seu Numerationis Per Virgulas Libri Duo: Cum Appendi Bernard Quaritch Ltd. napier, john. Rabdologiae, seu numerationis per virgulaslibri duo Cum Appendice de expeditissimo Multiplicationis Promptuario. http://www.polybiblio.com/quaritch/SM40.html

Bernard Quaritch Ltd. NAPIER, John. Leyden, Petrus Rammasenius, 1626. 12mo, pp. [xii], 139, 54, [3, blank], with nine folding woodcut plates and tables, and numerous diagrams and tables in the text; one folding plate and one table minimally shaved, affecting a letter; horizontal hole to fold-out of another table with loss of one numeral; a couple of leaves with minute wormholes; somewhat browned throughout, nonetheless a lovely copy in contemporary Italian carta rustica. SECOND LATIN EDITION, RARE, OF THE FIRST DESCRIPTION OF A CALCULATING MACHINE and the first computer manual, Napier's presentation of doing mechanised calculations with the use of Napier's bones and counters on a chessboard (for extracting square roots). Napier was 'the first man to understand, in his Rabdologia in 1617, the use of the decimal point in arithmetical operations' (Goldstine p. 4). 'An aid to calculation that attracted widespread interest was 'Napier's rods' otherwise known as 'Napier's bones'. ... The rods, devised to aid multiplication, are numbered sticks or oblong blocks, with the face of each marked with multiples of one of the counting digits. Multi-digit multiplication is carried out by laying rods alongside each other to make up the digits of the multiplicand, reading off and recording the partial products, and summing them. The layout of the numbers allowed the carries to be performed mentally as the partial products are read off, and the system reduced multi-digit multiplication to a series of look-up operations and simple additions. The use of the rods was described by John Napier in Rabdologia (1617)' (Grattan-Guinness p. 694-5).

67. John Napier And Logarithms john (1593)! john napier. john napier, Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio(1614) (from the preface of the first English translation in 1616). http://www.ualr.edu/~lasmoller/napier.html

Did you know . . .? Long before the calculator, logarithms were great mathematical labor-saving devices! Although there is evidence that logarithms were known in 8th century India, their invention as an aid to calculation is attributed to a Scottish nobleman named John Napier (1550-1617) in his Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio (1614) and Mirifici logarithmorum canonis constructio (published posthumously in 1619). In collaboration with Oxford professor Henry Briggs, Napier refined his logarithms by constructing tables for logarithms in base 10. Napier is also credited with creating one of the earliest calculating machines ( "Napier's bones" ) and with the first systematic use of the decimal point Not a bad mathematical pedigree for a man who never finished university and who considered his most important work to be his Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John John Napier. (Source: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/PictDisplay/Napier.html Napier lived during an age of great innovation in the world of astronomy. Copernicus had published his theory of the solar system in 1543, and many astronomers were eagerly involved in calculating and re-calculating planetary positions based in the wake of Copernicus's ideas. Their calculations took up pages and pages and hours and hours of work.

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69. John Napier (1550-1617) john napier (15501617). john napier, growing up in a Protestant family,would have been well aware of the theological conflicts of the day. http://www-ah.st-andrews.ac.uk/mgstud/reflect/napier.html

John Napier (1550-1617) Statue of John Napier (1550-1617) Copy of a Victorian representation found on the exterior of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. Plaster. Height 105cm, maximun width 40cm. John Napier began his formal education at St Salvator's College in St Andrews in 1563 while Scotland was under the rule of the Catholic Mary Queen of Scots. Her arrival from France two years previously had exacerbated political and religious divisions in the country. John Napier, growing up in a Protestant family, would have been well aware of the theological conflicts of the day. He is thought to have spent only a year at St Andrews but throughout his life his aim was the advancement of the Calvinist cause against the `blindnesse of papists.' A Plaine Discovery of the Revelation of St John , published in 1593, was the result of the application of mathematical principles to the numbers scattered throughout the text of the Book of Revelations. Napier claimed to reveal its hidden meanings, including the exact year of the Apocalypse and the conclusion that the Pope was the antichrist. This work established him as a respected theologian throughout Protestant Europe and he considered it to be his greatest achievement. Safe in the knowledge that the world did not end in 1786, as he predicted, Napier is now more commonly remembered for the mathematical work he carried out later in his life.

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73. Napier's Bones: All About Rods Nearing the end of his life, john napier, who is generally considered the inventorof logarithms, developed an ingenious arithmetic trick not as remarkable http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~greg/calculators/napier/about.html

Nearing the end of his life, John Napier, who is generally considered the inventor of logarithms, developed an ingenious arithmetic trick - not as remarkable as logs, but very useful all the same. His invention was a method for performing arithmetic operations by the manipulation of rods, called “bones” because they were often constituted from bones and printed with digits. Napier’s rods essentially rendered the complex processes of multiplication and division into the comparatively simple tasks of addition and subtraction. One version of Napier’s rods is displayed in the picture below: Picture: Private collection of G.W.J. Beckers As we can see, each rod contains ten squares: the first is inscribed with the number associated with the particular rod; the remaining nine are each bisected by a diagonal running from the lower left to the upper right. Leaving aside the first square, which is each rod’s number, the nth square contains the result of multiplying the rod-number by n so that the upper triangle of the square contains the most significant figure and the lower triangle the least significant figure, e.g. in the rod numbered 7, the fifth square, contains the number 35 written in this form. Now, let’s try to multiply 46,732 by 5. The fifth square of rod 2 contains the number 10. So 10 is placed in the units position. The fifth square of rod 3 contains the number 15. So 15 is placed in the tens position. The fifth square of rod 7 contains the number 35. So 35 is placed in the hundreds position. By continuing this process for the remaining rods we get:

74. John Napier: "A Great Man" Writing about the middle of the eighteenth century, David Hume proclaimed john napierof Merchiston References Hume Brown, P. “john napier of Merchiston”. http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~greg/calculators/napier/great.html

“Writing about the middle of the eighteenth century, David Hume proclaimed John Napier of Merchiston as the ‘person to whom the title of a great man is more justly due than to any other whom his country ever produced’.” When Hume awarded the first place among his countrymen to Napier, it was doubtless from an enlightened conviction that his work had been of great service to humanity. John Napier has gone down in history as the Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms (1614) and ‘Napier’s bones’, an early mechanical calculating device for multiplication and division. There is a lot, however, about the works and life of John Napier that has been obscured by the passage of time, and when it is revealed it will shed light on the intriguing personality of the man who passed among his contemporaries as a trafficker with Satan. A Man Ahead Of His Time Family History Sir Archibald Napier, the father of John, fully maintained his ancestors reputation for energy and sagacity. In his day, he also held an important public office: he was a Justice-Depute under the Earl of Argyll and for more than thirty years he was Master of the Mint. It should be stressed that Sir Archibald identified himself with Protestantism from the first, but apparently his zeal was not such as to satisfy either religious party in the country. However, his Protestant religious inclination was to have a decisive impact on the career of his son. Sir Archibald was twice married: he had three children by his first wife, Janet Bothwell, of which the eldest was John and ten by his second wife.

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John Napier (Merchiston 1550 - Edimburgo 3.4.1617) F u un attivo assertore della causa della Chiesa anglicana interpretando l'Apocalisse in funzione antiromana, paragonando il papa con l'Anticristo profetizzato da San Giovanni. Abbandonò, ben presto, gli studi di teologia per occuparsi di argomenti scientifici, in particolare di meccanica, di balistica, di astronomia e di problemi bellici. Dalle ricerche in questi campi scaturirono gli studi sui metodi di semplificazione dei calcoli numerici che lo portarono all'invenzione dei logaritmi, annunciata in " Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio " (1614) e in " Mirifici logarithmorum canonis constructio " (1619). Napier si dedicò successivamente al calcolo sistematico delle tavole dei logaritmi. Tra le sue opere riveste particolare importanza " Rhabdologiae seu Numerationis per virgualas libri duo A Napier si deve anche un contributo nel campo della trigonometria sferica. Col nome di teorema di Nepero e formule di Nepero sono note in trigonometria alcune relazioni tra gli elementi dei triangoli sferici e piani. Da secoli si suole attribuire a Napier la scoperta dei logaritmi anche se, nella sua tavola dei logaritmi pubblicata nel 1614, le funzioni tabulate erano connesse ma non coincidevano con i logaritmi naturali. Anche Henry Briggs (inventore dei logaritmi volgari o decimali perchè in base 10), nella sua pubblicazione "

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Top Movies Photo Galleries ... Film All Titles My Movies People Characters Quotes Bios Plots All (old) More searches Tips IMDbPro.com free trial John Napier categorized combined sorted by ratings sorted by votes titles for sale ... credited with biography other works publicity agent photo gallery news articles on tv this week official site miscellaneous photographs sound clip(s) video clip(s) Not the John Napier you're looking for? John Napier (I) Page 1 of 11 Add contact/agent Date of birth (location) 2 December Roda, Virginia, USA John Napier Amazon.com Video DVD Soundtrack Also available: Books Filmography as: Actor Notable TV Guest Appearances Actor - filmography Girl Who Knew Too Much, The (1969) .... Danny Deshea Gypsy Moths, The (1969) .... Dick Donford Rough Night in Jericho (1967) .... McGivern TV Series .... Ken Cleveland (1966-1967) Slender Thread, The (1965) .... Dr. Alden Van Great Sioux Massacre, The (1965) .... Tom Custer ... aka Custer Massacre, The (1965) ... aka Great Sioux Raid, The (1965) ... aka Massacre at the Rosebud (1965) Father Goose (1964) (uncredited) .... Lt. Cartwright, USS Sailfin Executive Officer

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