Numbering and Measuring in the Classical World
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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,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1904675182
ISBN13:9781904675181
Release Date:August 2004
Publisher:Liverpool University Press
Length:90 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 6.4" x 8.3"
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