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... century , are put forth with great diffidence , although I have spent much time in the effort to render them accurate and reasonably complete . Many valuable suggestions and criti- cisms on the chapter on " Recent Times " have been made ...
... century , are put forth with great diffidence , although I have spent much time in the effort to render them accurate and reasonably complete . Many valuable suggestions and criti- cisms on the chapter on " Recent Times " have been made ...
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... century after Christ . The principle of position , in its general and syste- matic application , requires a symbol for zero . We ask , Did the Babylonians possess one ? Had they already taken the gigantic step of representing by a ...
... century after Christ . The principle of position , in its general and syste- matic application , requires a symbol for zero . We ask , Did the Babylonians possess one ? Had they already taken the gigantic step of representing by a ...
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... centuries B.C. , was doubtless known to them two thousand years earlier , when they built those stupendous and gigantic structures the pyramids . An explanation for this stagnation of learning has been sought in the fact that their ...
... centuries B.C. , was doubtless known to them two thousand years earlier , when they built those stupendous and gigantic structures the pyramids . An explanation for this stagnation of learning has been sought in the fact that their ...
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... century B.C. an active commercial inter- course sprang up between Greece and Egypt . Naturally there arose an interchange of ideas as well as of merchandise . Greeks , thirsting for knowledge , sought the Egyptian priests for ...
... century B.C. an active commercial inter- course sprang up between Greece and Egypt . Naturally there arose an interchange of ideas as well as of merchandise . Greeks , thirsting for knowledge , sought the Egyptian priests for ...
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... century . The brilliant Archytas of Tarentum ( 428-347 B.C. ) , known as a great statesman and general , and universally admired for his virtues , was the only great geome- ter among the Greeks when Plato opened his school . Archy- tas ...
... century . The brilliant Archytas of Tarentum ( 428-347 B.C. ) , known as a great statesman and general , and universally admired for his virtues , was the only great geome- ter among the Greeks when Plato opened his school . Archy- tas ...
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