Set of eleven strips based on Napier's bones

Made:
1673 in France
Set of eleven strips based on Napier's bones

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Set of eleven strips based on Napier's bones
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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

Details

Category:
Mathematics
Object Number:
1986-565
type:
napier's rods
credit:
Brieux, Alain

Parts

Strips based on Napier's bones, with copperplate engraving

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 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.

Materials:
cardboard
Object Number:
1986-565 Pt2
type:
instrument case