The Making of a Scribe Errors, Mistakes and Rounding Numbers in the Old Babylonian Kingdom of Larsa /

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Middeke-Conlin, Robert (مؤلف)
مؤلف مشترك: SpringerLink (Online service)
الملخص:XXII, 487 p. 135 illus.
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اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020.
الطبعة:1st ed. 2020.
سلاسل:Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter, 4
الموضوعات:
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35951-5
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب
جدول المحتويات:
  • Chapter 1.Introduction
  • Chapter 2. The early scribal education
  • Chapter 3. Text types and archival practices in the kingdom of Larsa
  • Chapter 4. Archives, bureaus and management systems of the kingdom of Larsa
  • Chapter 5. Metrology and sexagesimal place value notation in economic texts
  • Chapter 6. Errors, mistakes and evidence for a counting device
  • Chapter 7. Observation and the limits of numeracy. Chapter 8. Multiplication and estimation
  • Chapter 9. Rounding in mathematical and economic texts
  • Chapter 10. Conclusion: On errors, rounding and education in the kingdom of Larsa.