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Portability and simplicity are the features of Napier's bones. The item in question represents the invention of Merchiston Tower, Scotland-born astronomer, mathematician, and physicist John Napier (1550 - 1617) to add, divide, multiply, square root, and subtract by way of a board accommodating 10 strips, each with eight rows of sequentially arranged numbers.

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