Numbering And Measuring In The Classical World

William Frank Richardson William Richardson William F. Richardson

ISBN 10: 1904675182 / ISBN 13: 9781904675181

Verlag: Liverpool University Press, 2004

Beschreibung

pp. 90.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2650560457

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Numbering And Measuring In The Classical World
• Verlag: Liverpool University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1904675182
• ISBN-13: 9781904675181
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

This volume introduces the reader to Greek and Roman ways of expressing numbers, weights and measures. These are matters often relegated to footnotes or 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 that employed them. The subject can be complex but this book seeks to cut it to the essentials and to avoid the aridity of larger, more technical treatments. It offers a fluid and readable text, liberally enhanced with tables and specific examples. Chapters cover the cardinal numbers, other number words, inclusive reckoning, symbols, fractions, simple arithmetic, linear measurements, measuring area and volume, measuring weight, capacity and value; financial matters; sizes of pipes and nozzles; measuring time. It is quite simply an indispensable point of reference for every student of classical culture or of ancient texts.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

The late William F. Richardson was Honorary Research fellow in the University of Auckland, New Zealand.