ANOTHER FORGOTTEN SCOTTISH INVENTOR [I Love History]

Like Bain and Watson-Watt, John Napier is another Scottish inventor that history has often forgotten.
Napier lived at Merchiston, then just outside, and now inside, Edinburgh, and was the man who invented Logarithms - Napier's Bones as they were known. As he lived in the late 16th and early 17th century, there were dark stories that he was a wizard- but personally I think he merely wanted to torture generations of school children with his invention.

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SW-User Best Comment

He has a lot to answer for 😑

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@helensusanswift I think I still have a log tables book somewhere, never really knew what to do with it.

Thanks for BC.

helensusanswift · 31-35, F

@SW-User What to do with it? BURN it!
When my brother came home from the army, he said he was going to buy a rifle and hang it on the wall.
"What for?" Asked his wife, who knew how much he had hated the army.
"So every day I can pass it and say: RUST you b*****. RUST!"
Same thing with log tables.

SW-User

@helensusanswift I'll collecf a few other things up, there's a slide rule somehere.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

Oh not really so forgotten really. He was also the inventor of this little piece of devilry! 😈

And yes, I once used this oh so fleetingly!

Notice the logarithms!

helensusanswift · 31-35, F

@DeWayfarer Nightmare! The authorities should have burned him at the stake for imposing centuries of torture on innocent school pupils!

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@helensusanswift yet I'll give you odds that he made it just to avoid the log tables books!

Not his fault that they made it far to expensive to buy!

helensusanswift · 31-35, F

@DeWayfarer I won't take that bet - you would win too easily.

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