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Modern instruments and methods of calculation

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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 …

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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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"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 …"

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