Engraving of Organum mathematicum (1668), Iconismus I.
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Schott, Organum mathematicum (1668), Iconismus I.
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Schott's Description of his "Mathematical Organ"

1668
"Organum Mathematicum" (Inv. 2741), Museo Galileo, Florence, Italy.
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"Organum Mathematicum" (Inv. 2741), Museo Galileo, Florence, Italy.

In 1668 Organum Mathematicum  by the German Jesuit scientist Gaspard Schott was posthumously published in Nuremberg. In this book Schott described his “mathematical organ,” and his calculating machine based on Napier’s rods.

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