Menningher, Karl

Number words and number symbols. A cultural history of numbers

Cambridge: The M.I.T. Press, [1970]. Translated by Paul Broneer from the revised German edition, 4to, pp. xiii, [1], 480; text illustrations throughout, charts; original black cloth a bit discolored, dust jacket with edgewear. "A people's number sequence is not a system created fresh out of the pure workings of the mind; it is rooted in the same soil as the people. Like culture itself, it grows up slowly over the millennia, and even in its mature form it reveals the history of its people through the successive deposits of the passing years." Item #29687

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