Set of eleven strips based on Napier's bones

Made:: 1673 in France

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Set of eleven strips based on Napier's bones, card with copperplate engraving: " Rabdologie par privilege du Roy" made by Sebastien de Pontault, Sieur de Beaulieu, and dated 3 August 1673, in later cardboard box

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Category:: Mathematics

Object Number:: 1986-565

type:: napier's rods

credit:: Brieux, Alain

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Strips based on Napier's bones, with copperplate engraving

Set of eleven strips based on Napier's bones, card with copperplate engraving: " Rabdologie par privilege du Roy" made by Sebastien de Pontault, Sieur de Beaulieu, and dated 3 August 1673.

Materials:: cardboard

Object Number:: 1986-565 Pt1

type:: napier's rods

Later cardboard box for strips

Later cardboard box for eleven strips based on Napier's bones, card with copperplate engraving: " Rabdologie par privilege du Roy" made by Sebastien de Pontault, Sieur de Beaulieu, and dated 3 August 1673.