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Numbering and Measuring in the Classical World: An Introductory Handbook

by: Richardson, W.F.

Price: 22,00 EURO

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Category: Greco-Roman History
Code: 10600
ISBN-13: 9781904675181 / 978-1-904675-18-1
ISBN-10: 1904675182 / 1-904675-18-2
Publisher: Bristol Phoenix Press
Publication Date: 2004
Publication Place: Bristol
Binding: Paper
Pages: 82
Book Condition: New
Comments: Revised 2nd Edtion, First Published 1985

 This volume aims to introduce the reader to Greek and Roman ways of expressing numbers, weights and measures - matters often relegated to footnotes or tabulations in an appendix. Yet the words, the symbols and the calculations used in the classical world have an interest in themselves and often reveal unexpected facets of the culture which employed them. The book is, quite simply, an indispensable point of reference for every student of ancient texts or of classical culture in general

Contents:
1. The cardinal numbers
2. Other number words
3. Inclusive reckoning; ante and post
4. Symbols
5. Fractions
6. Simple arithmetic
7. Linear measures
8. Measuring area and volume
9. Measuring weight
10. Measuring capacity
11. Measuring value
12. Some financial matters
13. Sizes of pipes and nozzles
14. Measuring time

Subjects:
Geschichte 800 v. Chr.-500
Greece
History
Mathematics, Ancient
Mathématiques anciennes
Maßeinheit
Measurement
Measurement Greece History
Measurement Rome History
Mesure Grèce Histoire
Mesure Rome Histoire
Numeration
Numeration History
Rome (Empire)
Zahl

82 pages ; 21 cm

 

 
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Numbering and Measuring in the Classical World: An Introductory Handbook

by: Richardson, W.F.

  • ISBN-13: 9781904675181 / 978-1-904675-18-1
  • ISBN-03: 1904675182 / 1-904675-18-2
  • Bristol Phoenix Press, Bristol, 2004

Price: 22,00 EURO

1 copy in stock