John Napier Crossword

2. Merchiston, John Napier was nicknamed what?
3. awards, Napier won what awards for The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Cats, Starlight Express, Les Misérables and Sunset Boulevard.
5. He started his education at the age of what?
7. known as the card abacus, used as a calculating machine
10. Napier, the name of the Scottish nobleman who loved mathematics, nicknamed Marvelous Merchiston
11. fourteen, what year did Napier become famous
15. how old was Napier when he died
16. Napier was the what Laird of Merchiston
17. Rutherford, special arrangements were made for the principal of the university, who, to take care of him personally
20. Napier, John Napier’s brother’s name
21. The power to which a number must be raised to get other values
22. place of birth
23. Napier’s nationality

1. century, what year did Napier invent logarithms
4. his cause of death
6. Napier invented several portable devices to use as what
8. Goodman, who inspired Napier
9. Stirling, John Napier’s wife’s name
10. Bothwell, Napier’s mom’s name
12. arithmetic, The additive binary numeral systems
13. point, He helped to introduce and popularize the what?
14. Andrews University, place of education
18. rods, What was the mechanical calculating aid Napier designed
19. bones, a method to speed up arithmetic, used to facilitate multiplication and division