Modern instruments and methods of calculation
a handbook of the Napier Tercentenary Exhibition
by Ellice Martin Horsburgh
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This book is a celebration of Napier's 3rd centenary, it has a biographycal essay plus a description of his state with special focus on his personal library. There's a nice chapter about mechanical calculators with great drawings. Another chapter deals with numerous kinds of planimeters and other mathematical instruments. It's very interesting to find a description of the old "brass brain" tide predicting machine.
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Modern instruments and methods of calculation: a handbook of the Napier Tercentenary Exhibition
1914, G. Bell and Sons, ltd., The Royal Society of Edinburgh
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A digital reproduction made from a copy held by Cornel University is available from the Cornell University Library's Historical Mathematics Monographs Web site.
Half-title: The Tercentenary Exhibition of Napier relics and of books, instruments, and devices for facilitating calculation.
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