Modern instruments and methods of calculation : a handbook of the Napier Tercentenary Exhibition (1914)
Horsburg, E. M. (Ellice Martin), Napier Tercentenary Exhibition (1914 : Edinburgh, Scotalnd) · London : G. Bell · leaf 38
future advance. Though Napiers work was an essential condition of modern industrialdevelopment and reacted powerfully on modern thought, his name has littleor no place in current text-books of Scottish history. Volumes have beenwritten which record in minute detail the most petty squabbles of the… … [To face p. 16. Section BLOAN COLLECTION, ANTIQUARIAN I. Napier Relics. i. (a) Set of Napiers Bones or Numbering Rods. Lent by ArchibaldScott Napier, Esq. (b) Another set, lent by Miss Napier. 2. Collection of Books of John Napier of Merchiston. Lent by Archibald Scott Napier, Esq. See p. 30. 3.…
