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Napier's Bones — An ivory set from around 1650 - device for calculating products & quotients
Photo Credit: By Kim Traynor - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18564232
Napier's Bones An ivory set from around 1650 - device for calculating products & quotients
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Merchiston Castle from an 1834 woodcut — Napier's birthplace, Merchiston Tower in Edinburgh, is now part of the facilities of Edinburgh Napier University. Napier was the 8th Laird of Merchiston
Photo Credit: By Unknown - Napier, Mark (1834) , William Blackwood, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32144164
Merchiston Castle from an 1834 woodcut Napier's birthplace, Merchiston Tower in Edinburgh, is now part of the facilities of Edinburgh Napier University. Napier was the 8th Laird of Merchiston
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John Napier — cropped
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John Napier cropped
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Tusi Observing — A stamp issued in the republic of Azerbaijan in 2009 honoring Tusi
Photo Credit: By Design: Kh. Mirzoyev - www.azermarka.az, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10633772
Tusi Observing A stamp issued in the republic of Azerbaijan in 2009 honoring Tusi
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Tusi's Observatory — Nasir al-Din al-Tusi at the observatory in Maragha, Persia. British Library.
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Tusi's Observatory Nasir al-Din al-Tusi at the observatory in Maragha, Persia. British Library.
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Nasir al-Din Tusi — Stamp issued in 1976 by Iran
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Nasir al-Din Tusi Stamp issued in 1976 by Iran
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Distillation equipment of Zosimos — Illustration from the 15th century Byzantine Greek manuscript, Parisinus graces, as reproduced in, Collection des anciens alchimistes grecs (3 vol., Paris, 1887–1888, p.161),
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Distillation equipment of Zosimos Illustration from the 15th century Byzantine Greek manuscript, Parisinus graces, as reproduced in, Collection des anciens alchimistes grecs (3 vol., Paris, 1887–1888, p.161),
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Alchemical instruments used by Jabir Ibn Hayyan
Photo Credit: By Unknown - Popular Science Monthly Volume 51, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15076643
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European depiction of Geber
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Jabir Ibn Hayyan
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Geber Trading Card — Liebig's Extract of Meat Company made Christmas Trading Cards of famous chemists - this one in 1929
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Geber Trading Card Liebig's Extract of Meat Company made Christmas Trading Cards of famous chemists - this one in 1929