Site Represents a site. Prim Media 700 Show Point true Pin PIN9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource John Napier - St Salvator's Quad Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 365 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.34175,-2.79414; Description An account of the resource John Napier (1550 - 1617 ) was a Scottish mathematician, physicist and astronomer. At the age of 13, he began his studies at the Saint Salvator's college of the University of St Andrews. He contributed a lot to Mathematics, by developing the concept of logarithms, a very useful tool for modern Applied Mathematics, and by inventing a calculating device, called Napier's bones. Moreover, in 1616 his book Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio was published, which included his theorems for Spherical Geometry, called Napier's Rules of Circular Parts. Napier is also famous for establishing the use of the dot (.) to distinguish the integer from the decimal part of decimal numbers. See also https://www.curious-sta.org/john-napier/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource mav7@st-andrews.ac.uk Subject The topic of the resource Mathematics Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived ,,, Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT