11) slide rule. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...and other more complicated calculations may be performed with a slide rule. Based on John Napier's principle of the logarithm, it came into use after Edmund Gunter...
12) calculator. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...common in E Asia) and the counting rods, or "bones," of the Scottish mathematician John Napier. The slide rule, invented in 1622 by William Oughtred, an English mathematician,...
13) Magdala, village, Ethiopia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...several British diplomats there. In 1868 a British military expedition under Sir Robert Napier rescued the prisoners, destroyed Magdala, and prompted Tewodros's suicide....
14) Sukkur. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...weaving are also important. Modern Sukkur was built by the British general Sir Charles Napier in the 1840s. The city has several colleges. Sukkur Barrage, a dam across...
15) Barrow, Isaac. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...and vice chancellor of Cambridge in 1675. His theological works were edited by Alexander Napier (1859) and his mathematical works by William Whewell (1860)....
16) Stanley, Sir Henry Morton. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...on both sides in the American Civil War, he drifted into journalism. His coverage of Lord Napier's Abyssinian campaign in 1868 for the New York Herald won him journalistic...
17) logarithm. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...using the number e (see separate article) as the base are called natural logarithms or Napierian logarithms (for John Napier). The natural logarithm of a number x...
18) Tewodros II. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...committed suicide after being defeated near Magdala by a British rescue force under Robert C. Napier....
19) tarsier. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...family Tarsiidae. 1See M. Kavanagh, Monkeys, Apes and Other Primates (1983); J. R. Napier and P. H. Napier, The Natural History of the Primates (1985). 2...
20) Dundee, John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount. The Columbia
Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...called Bonnie Dundee and in Scott's Old Mortality. 1See his memorials and letters (ed. by M. Napier, 1859-62); biographies by C. S. Terry (1905) and A. N. and H....
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