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Most of us are familiar with roman numerals, as they are still in occasional use today, but how did the ancient Egyptians, Sumerains, Babylonians and Greeks write numbers ? How did they measure distance, capacity and weight, and how did the early architects and engineers make the necessary calculations for building their great pyramids, temples, aqueducts and roads ? In this fully illustrated book, Professor Dilke outlines the ancient systems of mathematics and measurement and describes how they were used in mapping, surveying, telling the time, trade and commerce, as well as in leisure pursuits such as games and puzzles, and in the occult. A final chapter sketches subsequent developments in the West, including the introduction of arabic numerals, and shows how the mathematical legacy of the graeco-roman world influenced science and technology in the Renaissance and beyond.

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Documentation and information --- Natural history --- Antiquities --- Library resources --- Exhibitions. --- 027 <44 PARIS> --- 094:5 --- 7.074 "16" --- -Natural history --- -History, Natural --- Natural science --- Physiophilosophy --- Biology --- Science --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- Archaeology --- Algemene bibliotheken--Frankrijk--PARIS --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Wiskunde. Natuurwetenschappen --- Kunstverzameling. Activiteiten van verzamelaars--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- -Exhibitions --- Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve --- -Bibliothèque centrale universitaire (Paris, France) --- Paris. --- Université de Paris. --- Université de Paris --- History --- -Algemene bibliotheken--Frankrijk--PARIS --- -History --- 7.074 "16" Kunstverzameling. Activiteiten van verzamelaars--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- 094:5 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Wiskunde. Natuurwetenschappen --- 027 <44 PARIS> Algemene bibliotheken--Frankrijk--PARIS --- History, Natural --- Library resources&delete& --- Exhibitions --- Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève --- Bibliothèque centrale universitaire (Paris, France) --- Du Molinet, Claude, --- Cabinet de la Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève --- Antiquities - Library resources - Exhibitions. --- Natural history - Library resources - Exhibitions. --- Du Molinet, Claude, - 1620-1687

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In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature, created vast collections as a means of knowing the world and used this knowledge to their greater glory.Drawing on extensive archives of visitors' books, letters, travel journals, memoirs, and pleas for patronage, Paula Findlen reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums. She follows the new study of natural history as it moved out of the universities and into sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific societies, religious orders, and princely courts. Findlen argues convincingly that natural history as a discipline blurred the border between the ancients and the moderns, between collecting in order to recover ancient wisdom and the development of new textual and experimental scholarship. Her vivid account reveals how the scientific revolution grew from the constant mediation between the old forms of knowledge and the new.

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