Jacopo da Firenze’s Tractatus Algorismi and Early Italian Abbacus Culture
In the city republics of Renaissance Italy, it was a common practice among the merchant class to send sons for a two-year course of study at an "abbacus school", where they learned practical, mostly commercial mathematics, known as abbaco. From this school institution, several hundred manu...
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| Language: | English |
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Basel :
Birkhäuser Basel,
2007.
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| Series: | Science Networks. Historical Studies ;
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
