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Books

Rabdology by John Napier, William F. Richardson (Translator) (Hardcover)

The Art of Numbering by Speaking Rods by W Leybourn (1667)

Napier's Bones : a History and Instruction Manual by D J Bryden, (1992)

Handbook of the Napier Tercentenary Celebration or Modern Instruments and Methods of Calculation by E. M. Horsburgh (Editor), M. R. Williams (Designer) (Hardcover)

Handbook of the Napier Tercentenary Celebration or Modern Instruments and Methods of Calculation (Hardcover - May 1984)

Napier Tercentenary Memorial Volume - C G Knott (Editor - 1915)

Memoirs of John Napier of  Merchiston, his Lineage, Life, and Times, with a History of the Invention of Logarithms - Mark Napier  (1904)

A Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms by John Napier

Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians -- Luetta Reimer, Wilbert Reimer (1992)

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