Another act which Napier is reported to have done, which may have seemed mystical to the locals, was when Napier removed the pigeons from his estate, since they were eating his grain. Napier caught the pigeons by strewing grain laced with alcohol throughout the field, and then capturing the pigeons once they were too drunk to fly away. [25] Many mathematicians at the time were acutely aware of the issues of computation and were dedicated to relieving practitioners of the calculation burden. Napier was famous for his devices to assist with these issues of computation. He invented a well-known mathematical artefact, the ingenious numbering rods more quaintly known as "Napier's bones", [9] that offered mechanical means for facilitating computation. a b c "Subnational population estimates (RC, SA2), by age and sex, at 30 June 1996-2023 (2023 boundaries)". Statistics New Zealand . Retrieved 25 October 2023. (regional councils); "Subnational population estimates (TA, SA2), by age and sex, at 30 June 1996-2023 (2023 boundaries)". Statistics New Zealand . Retrieved 25 October 2023. (territorial authorities); "Subnational population estimates (urban rural), by age and sex, at 30 June 1996-2023 (2023 boundaries)". Statistics New Zealand . Retrieved 25 October 2023. (urban areas) John Napier." Math & Mathematicians: The History of Math Discoveries around the World. 2 vols. U*X*L, 1999

The city is home to the professional basketball team Hawke's Bay Hawks, which plays in the National Basketball League. It plays its home games in the Pettigrew Green Arena. Napier's father was Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston Castle, and his mother was Janet Bothwell, daughter of the politician and judge Francis Bothwell, [3] and a sister of Adam Bothwell who became the Bishop of Orkney. Archibald Napier was 16 years old when John Napier was born. [3] Merchiston Castle from an 1834 woodcut Ivor Grattan-Guinness (1 August 2003). Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences. JHU Press. p.1129. ISBN 978-0-8018-7397-3 . Retrieved 23 May 2012.

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I suppose that there are few indeed of the present generation who have read, or even heard of, the book; whatever its merits may have been they do not appeal to the modern mind... User Experience (UX) Design " class="text-underline">Full-time | " class="text-underline">Part-time Napier was educated at St Andrews University, entering the university in 1563 at the age of 13. His mother arranged for him to live in St Salvator's College and special arrangements were made for the Principal of the University, John Rutherford, to take care of him personally. Napier's name appears on the matriculation roll of St Salvator's College for 1563. Shortly after Napier matriculated his mother died. We know that Napier spent some time at St Andrews University and he wrote himself many years later that it was in St Andrews that he first became passionately interested in theology. Sir Ashley Bloomfield – Chief Executive of the Ministry of Health and the country's Director-General of Health, born in Napier

Napier had been a fanatical Protestant from his days as an undergraduate at St Andrews. He wrote the Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John according to his preface:- Napier's major tourist attraction is its architecture, which draws Art Deco and architecture enthusiasts from around the world. The rebuilding period after the 1931 earthquake coincided with the short-lived and rapidly changing Art Deco era and the Great Depression, when little "mainstreet" development was being undertaken elsewhere. As a result, Napier's architecture is strikingly different from any other city; the other notable Art Deco city, Miami Beach, has Streamline Moderne Art Deco. The whole centre of Napier was rebuilt simultaneously.

Duff, Michelle (18 February 2023). "Cyclone Gabrielle: In Hawke's Bay, a week of devastation that time forgot". Stuff . Retrieved 19 February 2023. End of an era as Napier's Marineland closes". The New Zealand Herald. Newstalk ZB. 27 April 2009 . Retrieved 27 October 2011. Springer, Will (14 February 2005). "Napier's wizard roots– article about Napier's interest in the occult". The Scotsman . Retrieved 29 March 2011. Biography John Napier's father, Archibald Napier, was an important man in late 16 th century Scotland. His family had owned the Merchiston estate from the 1430s when one of his ancestors acquired the estate, becoming the first Napare of Merchiston. (We shall comment shortly on the different spellings of Napier's name. ) The family also owned estates at Lennox and at Menteith and a residence at Gartness. Archibald Napier married Janet Bothwell, the sister of the Bishop of Orkney, in 1549 when he was only 15 years old. Their son John Napier was born the following year. Archibald Napier was a justice-depute and was knighted in 1565. He was appointed Master of the Mint in 1582.

Among Napier's early followers were the instrument makers Edmund Gunter and John Speidell. [27] [28] [29] The development of logarithms is given credit as the largest single factor in the general adoption of decimal arithmetic. [30] The Trissotetras (1645) of Thomas Urquhart builds on Napier's work, in trigonometry. [31] When one of the angles, say C, of a spherical triangle is equal to π/2 the various identities given above are considerably simplified. There are ten identities relating three elements chosen from the set a, b, c, A, B. a b Wane, Joanna (May 2018). "Why you should go to Napier's Art Deco Festival". North & South. 386: 110–116. sin ⁡ a = tan ⁡ ( π / 2 − B ) tan ⁡ b = cos ⁡ ( π / 2 − c ) cos ⁡ ( π / 2 − A ) = cot ⁡ B tan ⁡ b = sin ⁡ c sin ⁡ A . {\displaystyle \sin a=\tan(\pi /2-B)\,\tan b=\cos(\pi /2-c)\,\cos(\pi /2-A)=\cot B\,\tan b=\sin c\,\sin A.}

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AtoJs Online — Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives — 1920 Session I — D-01 PUBLIC WORKS STATEMENT. BY THE HON. J. G. COATES, MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS". atojs.natlib.govt.nz. 1920 . Retrieved 11 April 2020. Napier's father-in-law, Sir James Chisholm of Cromlix, was one of many excommunicated by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian party following the Spanish blanks plot. Napier sat on the General Assembly that excommunicated the plotters, and petitioned the King James VI and I to enforce the punishment on the plotters, but was ultimately ignored since the King believed the ministers were acting cruelly, and was in favor of pursuing policies of more appeasement. [17] [35] Mirifici logarithmorum canonis constructio –written before the Descriptio, but published posthumously by his son Robert. Translated into English in 1889. [36] State Highway 50 connects Napier to the southwestern Hawke's Bay, going through many small settlements. It also connects Napier to many of Hawke's Bay's wineries, of which the region is well known for. It makes up part of the Hawke's Bay Wine Trail. The city's main television and FM radio transmitter is the Mount Erin transmitter atop Kohinurākau, 28km (17mi) south-southwest of central Napier. Television arrived in the city in 1962 with the commissioning of a private translator relaying Wellington's WNTV1 (now part of TVNZ 1). Official coverage came in 1966 with the commissioning of the Mount Erin transmitter. [53] Notable people [ edit ]