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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Basel :
Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2007. |
| Series: | Science Networks. Historical Studies,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8391-6 |
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Table of Contents:
- Jacopo, His Treatise, and Abbacus Culture
- Three Manuscripts
- The Abbacus Tradition
- The Contents of Jacopo’s Tractatus
- Algebra
- Jacopo’s Material and Influence
- The Vatican Manuscript Edition and Translation
- Edition and Translation Principles
- The Text.