HORSBURGH, Ellice Martin, ed. Napier tercentenary celebration. Handbook of the exhibition of Napier relics and of books, instruments, & devices for facilitating calculation . Edinburgh: Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1914. 8 o. 7 plates, text illustrations. Original printed wrappers; boxed. Provenance : Signature of Robert Schlapp (of the Tait Institute of Mathematical Physics, Edinburgh) on inner front wrapper, and his pencil note on the title, dated May 1956, stating that this copy was from the library of Sir Edmund Whittaker, professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, convener of the committee that prepared the tercentenary handbook. Laid in is a typed letter signed to Schlapp from M. A. Ellison of the Edinburgh Royal Observatory, holder of the Crawford Library, which incorporated portions of Charles Babbage's library, dated 23 July 1958. FIRST EDITION of the rare catalogue presented to those who attended the exhibition. It is the best account of the state of mechanical calculation up to World War I. The Napier tercentenary celebration, marking the three hundredth anniversary of the publication of Napier's Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio (1614) was held in Edinburgh from July 24 to July 27, 1914--just five days before the start of World War I. Participants in the exhibition included individuals and companies from Scotland, England, France, and Germany The meeting was intended to include a colloquium on the mathematics of computation, but that was canceled because war was considered imminent. The Handbook was published in two forms: a softcover version as above, presented to those who registered for the exhibition; and a hardcover version issued for sale under the title Modern Instruments and Methods of Calculation. Relatively few copies of the softcover version seem to have been distributed at the exhibition, partly because the exhibition took place in Edinburgh, but mainly because war broke out just after it began. Randell 1982a, 476. This version is unusually scarce. When OOC was written OCLC cited only one copy of this version of the Handbook , at Oxford University. From Gutenberg to the Internet 3.2, 6.3. OOC 322. [ With: ] HORSBURGH, ed. Modern instruments and methods of calculation. A handbook of the Napier tercentenary exhibition . London: G. Bell and Sons, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, [1915]. Original green cloth. The hard-cover version of the preceding. OOC 323. [ With: ] KNOTT, Cargill Gilston, ed. Napier tercentenary memorial volume . London: Published for the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Longmans, Green and Co, 1915. Original white cloth, gilt-stamped on front cover and spine. An elegantly printed collection of addresses and essays delivered at the Napier tercentennial. OOC 331.
HORSBURGH, Ellice Martin, ed. Napier tercentenary celebration. Handbook of the exhibition of Napier relics and of books, instruments, & devices for facilitating calculation . Edinburgh: Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1914. 8 o. 7 plates, text illustrations. Original printed wrappers; boxed. Provenance : Signature of Robert Schlapp (of the Tait Institute of Mathematical Physics, Edinburgh) on inner front wrapper, and his pencil note on the title, dated May 1956, stating that this copy was from the library of Sir Edmund Whittaker, professor of mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, convener of the committee that prepared the tercentenary handbook. Laid in is a typed letter signed to Schlapp from M. A. Ellison of the Edinburgh Royal Observatory, holder of the Crawford Library, which incorporated portions of Charles Babbage's library, dated 23 July 1958. FIRST EDITION of the rare catalogue presented to those who attended the exhibition. It is the best account of the state of mechanical calculation up to World War I. The Napier tercentenary celebration, marking the three hundredth anniversary of the publication of Napier's Mirifici logarithmorum canonis descriptio (1614) was held in Edinburgh from July 24 to July 27, 1914--just five days before the start of World War I. Participants in the exhibition included individuals and companies from Scotland, England, France, and Germany The meeting was intended to include a colloquium on the mathematics of computation, but that was canceled because war was considered imminent. The Handbook was published in two forms: a softcover version as above, presented to those who registered for the exhibition; and a hardcover version issued for sale under the title Modern Instruments and Methods of Calculation. Relatively few copies of the softcover version seem to have been distributed at the exhibition, partly because the exhibition took place in Edinburgh, but mainly because war broke out just after it began. Randell 1982a, 476. This version is unusually scarce. When OOC was written OCLC cited only one copy of this version of the Handbook , at Oxford University. From Gutenberg to the Internet 3.2, 6.3. OOC 322. [ With: ] HORSBURGH, ed. Modern instruments and methods of calculation. A handbook of the Napier tercentenary exhibition . London: G. Bell and Sons, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, [1915]. Original green cloth. The hard-cover version of the preceding. OOC 323. [ With: ] KNOTT, Cargill Gilston, ed. Napier tercentenary memorial volume . London: Published for the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Longmans, Green and Co, 1915. Original white cloth, gilt-stamped on front cover and spine. An elegantly printed collection of addresses and essays delivered at the Napier tercentennial. OOC 331.
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