A set of Napier's bones An unusual 18th-century set of Napier's bones in which the numbers are on rotating cylinders rather than rods of square cross-section Using the multiplication tables embedded ...

Thus, 12 x 34 = 408. An ivory set of Napier’s Bones from around 1650. Image via Marc Kjerland. John Napier had a great deal of calculating to do. The lattice multiplication method was a big ...

One, since known as Napier’s rods or Napier’s bones, was a set of rods marked with the multiples of the digits from 0 to 9. Napier explained how to use these rods to assist in multiplication and ...

History of Computers and Computing, Calculating tools In this section will be examined some calculating tools, used by ...

He also invented the earliest calculating machine, ‘Napier’s Bones’. However it was for his religious book ‘A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John’, that he was best known during his ...

He also created a device using rods, also called Napier's bones, to perform aritmetical calculations. These rods were widely used by accountants and bookkeepers. Several people used the concept of ...

Scientists have estimated the size of an extinct flying reptile called a pterosaur, based on fragments of a fossil finger bone discovered in southern ...

The forelimb bones are long among apes ... American Journal of Physical Anthropology 1, 1-52 (1924). Napier, J. R. Evolutionary aspects of primate locomotion. American Journal of Physical ...

But Napier seeks to find joy and beauty in the little details ... upholstered chairs and couches -- there is nothing wrong with recovering a couch with good bones so that it can stay in the home over ...

Or, more likely, Napier should be hoping for some nice hors ... and it offers significant hope to the fan base that by simply reburying the bones Bo Pelini dug up from that sacred ancient burial ...

Click and read the section "A Great Man." Click and read the section "All About Rods." Run the Java Simulation.* *You may have trouble with the demonstration and ...