Images from the Wikimedia Commons Napier’s Bones category.
“Napier’s bones are a manually-operated calculating device created by John Napier of Merchiston, Scotland for calculation of products and quotients of numbers. The method was based on Arab mathematics and the lattice multiplication used by Matrakci Nasuh in the Umdet-ul Hisab and Fibonacci’s work in his Liber Abaci. The technique was also called Rabdology. Napier published his version in 1617 in Rabdology, printed in Edinburgh, Scotland, dedicated to his patron Alexander Seton.” (Wikipedia).
Spot the difference games are getting harder nowadays
JUSTICE FOR AMANI KILDEA
me, mentally flipping through the various daydream universes i’ve crafted up like records in a crate: hmm, which fantasy shall i indulge in tonight?
We have to make sure George Floyd doesn’t die in vain by sending in 500 troops to go after american people and likely take more lives and make things so much worse for everyone involved. Makes sense.
/ˈmēlyəˌrizəm/
noun the belief that the world can be made better by human effort.
Academia style but make it inclusive 🦇✨🥀
Minneapolis, MN. May 28th 2020
one of the best heartwarming scenes between Zuko and Iroh. The fact that Zuko is truly repentant and Iroh is unconditionally forgiving despite everything he’s endured. And of course, they can make you cry one moment and laugh in the next.
the raven cycle — maggie stiefvater
welsh kings, magic forests, obsessive research, private schools.
wilder girls — rory power
lord of the flies retelling, all-girls boarding school, remote island.
six of crows — leigh bardugo
murder, crime, heists, magic.
truly devious — maureen johnson
murder mystery, eccentric students, elite boarding school, 1900s
the night circus — erin morgenstern
magical circus, mysterious psychics, mind games, star crossed love.
the diviners — libba bray
1920s new york city, wlw + mlm rep, ace rep, occult magic, mysterious museums
vicious — v.e. schwab
an experiment gone wrong, blackout poetry, rivals, strange powers
the cruel prince — holly black
FAERIES, enemies to lovers, political power struggles, another magic forest
station eleven — emily st. john mandel
shakespeare, thespians, post-apocalyptic wasteland
serpent & dove — shelby mahurin
witches, french backdrop, 1880s, enemies to lovers, WITCHES
feel free to add on!