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Mathematics and Measurement
Oswald Ashton Wentworth Dilke
出版
Trustees of the British Museum
, 1987
ISBN
071418067X
9780714180670
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=UtruAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Outlines the ancient systems of mathematics and measurement (distance, weight, etc.) of which the most prominent theoretical aspects were astronomy in Babylonia and Greece, and geometry, in Greece. 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 Graceo-Roman world influenced science and technology in the Renaissance and beyond.