{"id":356,"date":"2017-11-12T19:55:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T19:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mat3.cat\/?page_id=356"},"modified":"2017-11-12T20:05:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T20:05:59","slug":"llibre-sobre-john-napier","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mat3.cat\/en\/matematiques\/llibre-sobre-john-napier\/","title":{"rendered":"A new book about John Napier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-349\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mat3.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_20171025_165906.jpg?resize=193%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Napier RBA\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"\">In October 2017 the book &#8220;The seed of calculation and computation&#8221; NAPIER had been published by<\/span><span class=\"\"> RBA in Maths Geniuses collection, number 32.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\">This work has taken us to Edinburgh, where we were able to enjoy the &#8220;Rabdologiae&#8221; 1617 in our hands, observe the &#8220;Napier&#8217;s bones&#8221; in the &#8220;promptuary&#8221; that is kept in the Archaeological Museum of Madrid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\">The book is divided into 6 chapters:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Napier: a mad sorcerer?<br \/>\nAbacus people versus algorithm people<br \/>\nThe Napier&#8217;s bones<br \/>\nThe tabulating art<br \/>\nThe numbers of the reason<br \/>\n<span class=\"\">This is how the logarithm sounds<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2017 the book &#8220;The seed of calculation and computation&#8221; NAPIER had been published by RBA in Maths Geniuses collection, number 32. This work has taken us to Edinburgh, where we were able to enjoy the &#8220;Rabdologiae&#8221; 1617 in our hands, observe the &#8220;Napier&#8217;s bones&#8221; in the &#8220;promptuary&#8221; that is kept in the Archaeological [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":71,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-356","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P74L54-5K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat3.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat3.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat3.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat3.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat3.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mat3.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/mat3.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/356\/revisions\/369"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat3.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat3.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}