Author: Wesley Stoker Barker Woolhouse
Publisher: Ares Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Historical Measures, Weights, Calendars & Moneys of All Nations
Author: Wesley Stoker Barker Woolhouse
Publisher: Ares Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher: Ares Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures
Author: Jan Gyllenbok
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3319666916
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 977
Book Description
This second volume of Gyllenbok's encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the first part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (A-I). Units of measurement are of vital importance in every civilization through history. Since the early ages, man has through necessity devised various measures to assist him in everyday life. They have enabled and continue to enable us to trade in commonly and equitably understood amounts, and to investigate, understand, and control the chemical, physical, and biological processes of the natural world. The encyclopeadia will be of use not only to historians of science and technology, but also to economic and social historians and should be in every major academic and national library as standard reference work on the topic.
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3319666916
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 977
Book Description
This second volume of Gyllenbok's encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the first part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (A-I). Units of measurement are of vital importance in every civilization through history. Since the early ages, man has through necessity devised various measures to assist him in everyday life. They have enabled and continue to enable us to trade in commonly and equitably understood amounts, and to investigate, understand, and control the chemical, physical, and biological processes of the natural world. The encyclopeadia will be of use not only to historians of science and technology, but also to economic and social historians and should be in every major academic and national library as standard reference work on the topic.
Alcuin's Recreational Mathematics
Author: Marcel Danesi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198925328
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Propositiones ad acuendos juvenes (“Problems to Sharpen the Young”) is a ninth-century book written by medieval teacher and scholar Alcuin of York. Today, it has become one of the foundational texts in what is commonly called recreational mathematics. The book has been translated in many languages and analysed from various mathematical angles and perspectives, from contemporary arithmetic and geometry to the nature of sequences. It is not only a collection of ingenious and challenging puzzles, but the core ideas collected in this book have become major themes and branches of mathematics. Here, Marcel Danesi revisits all fifty-three problems in Alcuin's original text, providing detailed solutions and analyses. Alcuin's Recreational Mathematics examines the problems in the Propositiones in easy-to-follow language, extracting from them the notions and techniques that today constitute basic mathematics. Each chapter discusses Alcuin's problems more broadly, and ends with ten exploratory puzzles based on Alcuin's original problems and related themes. Answers and detailed solutions are included at the back. Alcuin's Recreational Mathematics demonstrates how Alcuin's Propositiones puts basic mathematical thinking on display via ingenious problems that often require outside-of-the-box thinking, constituting an original and imaginative investigation of mathematics in its essence.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198925328
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Propositiones ad acuendos juvenes (“Problems to Sharpen the Young”) is a ninth-century book written by medieval teacher and scholar Alcuin of York. Today, it has become one of the foundational texts in what is commonly called recreational mathematics. The book has been translated in many languages and analysed from various mathematical angles and perspectives, from contemporary arithmetic and geometry to the nature of sequences. It is not only a collection of ingenious and challenging puzzles, but the core ideas collected in this book have become major themes and branches of mathematics. Here, Marcel Danesi revisits all fifty-three problems in Alcuin's original text, providing detailed solutions and analyses. Alcuin's Recreational Mathematics examines the problems in the Propositiones in easy-to-follow language, extracting from them the notions and techniques that today constitute basic mathematics. Each chapter discusses Alcuin's problems more broadly, and ends with ten exploratory puzzles based on Alcuin's original problems and related themes. Answers and detailed solutions are included at the back. Alcuin's Recreational Mathematics demonstrates how Alcuin's Propositiones puts basic mathematical thinking on display via ingenious problems that often require outside-of-the-box thinking, constituting an original and imaginative investigation of mathematics in its essence.
History of the Art of Antiquity
Author: Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892366682
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
"Translation of a foundational text for the disciplines of art history and archaeology. Offers a systematic history of art in ancient Egypt, Persia, Etruria, Rome, and, above all, Greece that synthesizes the visual and written evidence then available"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892366682
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
"Translation of a foundational text for the disciplines of art history and archaeology. Offers a systematic history of art in ancient Egypt, Persia, Etruria, Rome, and, above all, Greece that synthesizes the visual and written evidence then available"--Provided by publisher.
Elements of the Jewish and Muhammadan Calendars
Author: Sherrard Beaumont Burnaby
Publisher: London : G. Bell & sons
ISBN:
Category : Calendar, Gregorian
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Publisher: London : G. Bell & sons
ISBN:
Category : Calendar, Gregorian
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society
Author: Royal Geographical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
A.L.A. Catalog
Author: American Library Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
A.L.A. Catalog
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Grande-Bretagne). Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
The Civil Service First French Book
Author: Achille Motteau
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368818562
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368818562
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.