Which inventor created a mechanical machine in the 1600s capable of performing addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and extracting square roots?
Explanation
A. Blaise Pascal developed an early calculator for addition and subtraction. B. John Napier is known for logarithms. C. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invented a mechanical calculator in the 17th century that could add, subtract, multiply, divide, and compute square roots. D. Charles Babbage designed later computational machines.