Note that Napier's bones are not the same as logarithms, with which Napier's name is also associated.

Napier's bones are three dimensional, square in cross section, with four different rods engraved on each one.

Napier's bones is a manually operated calculating device created by John Napier of Merchiston for calculation of products and quotients of numbers.

These are long bones, short bones, flat bones, irregular bones, and sesamoid bones.

The Napier's rods consist of strips of wood, metal or heavy cardboard.

The bones of the wrist and ankle are short bones, as are the sesamoid bones.

The bones of the spine, pelvis, and some bones of the skull are irregular bones.

They are responsible for the formation of the diaphyses of long bones, short bones and certain parts of irregular bones.

The first such table was compiled by Henry Briggs in 1617, immediately after Napier's invention.

We began to find limb bones we found finger bones, the bones of the pelvis, vertebrae, ribs, the collar bones, things that had never, ever been seen before in Homo erectus.

Dogs often bury bones.

Most of the bones of the skull are flat bones, as is the sternum.

Napier's birthplace, Merchiston Tower in Edinburgh, Scotland, is now part of the facilities of Edinburgh Napier University.

Most bones of the limbs, including those of the fingers and toes, are long bones.

Cortical bone is the hard outer shell of bones and the middle of long bones.

Bizarre decoration from human bones

Drink milk, get strong bones.

Bones and cartilage Bone Bones are rigid organs that form part of the endoskeleton of vertebrates.

Your bones regenerate every 10 years.

Drink cow's milk, get strong bones

These are bones from a human.

See also List of bones References

From his bones it was clear that Timur was a tall and broad chested man with strong cheek bones.

I broke some bones in my feet.

They start releasing calcium from the bones.

He makes no bones about admitting it.

He'll not live to make old bones.

Our dog buries bones in the garden.

The human skull consists of 23 bones.

The soft bones can be easily chewed.

The bones provide stability to the body.

Contains many chapels decorated in Baroque style, including the Chapel of Bones (Capela dos Ossos), totally covered with human bones.

There are 206 bones in the adult human skeleton, although this number depends on whether the pelvic bones (the os innominatum on each side) are counted as one or three bones on each side (ilium, ischium, and pubis), whether the coccyx or tail bone is counted as one or four separate bones, and does not count the variable wormian bones between skull sutures.

The number of bones varies between individuals and with age newborn babies have over 270 bones some of which fuse together.

And that's by actually cutting into their bones.

Other marked bones may also represent lunar calendars.

Our dog buries its bones in the garden.

It is radioactive and can accumulate in bones.

But cutting into the bones of a dinosaur is hard to do, as you can imagine, because in museums bones are precious.

The bones of the sacrum were fused (synsacrum) and the pelvic bones were fused together and to this structure (Sereno 1997) (i.e.

Not all bones are interconnected directly There are three bones in each middle ear called the ossicles that articulate only with each other.

He even photographed the bones of the human body.

Essentially, his bones were rapidly buried and beautifully preserved.

The spinal column is composed of twenty four bones.

They had been stored with crocodile bones until then.