Napier’s bones are also known as Napier’s rods, which is a more accurate description. Before Napier’s tables could be mass produced and printed, his bones were physical rods, ...

Napier is also renowned, among many others, for inventing “Napier’s Bones,” the world’s first practical, ... Napier’s four mathematical works were originally published in Latin: two during his ...

Napier's Bones Derryl Murphy, ChiZine (Diamond, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (255p) ISBN 978-1-926851-09-9 Murphy (Wasps at the Speed of Sound) introduces some fascinating ideas, but undercuts them ...

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 ...

Napier’s Bones heads off into uncharted territory via the notion of magical mathematics. Licence plates, credit cards, telephone numbers, and even baseball statistics are all sources of power for the ...