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into perches grotes turned into dayeworkes. xl.d
into a roode, a noble into di. acre, a Royal into .iii.
roodes: a marke into an acre, & poundes turned
into Markes, the which there be name acres.
A short section at the end discusses how To measure
Tymber or Stone, in length, breadth and depthe by the
foote square.
Like many other books of this era, for example, the
illustration of Ptolemy in Gregor Reisch’s Margarita
philosophica (of which the woodcut in this volume is
only a crude copy), this work continues the suggestion
that Ptolemy was the inventor of the quadrant (see
illustration of the goddess of astronomy showing Ptolemy
how to use a crude quadrant). It also continues the error
that Ptolemy was a king of Egypt (note the crown and
royal robes). The old typeface and random spelling make
this a quite interesting book.
Illustrations available:
Title page
Ptolemy
Table
Erwin Tomash Library
Bennett, Wendell Clark Berkeley, Edmund Callis
B 136
Bennett, Wendell Clark (1905–1953)
Ptolemy, B 135
Numbers, measures, weights and calendars.
Year: 1949
Place: Washington, D.C.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution U.S.G.P.O.
Edition: Extract
Language: English
Binding: original printed paper wrappers
Pagination: pp. [2], 601–610
Size: 242x154 mm
weights and measures, and calendar systems of major
native groups in South America.
Illustrations available:
Title page
B 137
Berkeley, Edmund Callis (1909–1988)
Circuit algebra - introduction.
Year: 1952
Place: New York
Publisher: Edmund C. Berkeley Associates
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Figures: 24 figures in text
Binding: original paper wrappers
Pagination: pp. [1], i, 34
Size: 280x216 mm
Berkeley, a native of New York, graduated with an A.B.
summa cum laude in mathematics from Harvard in 1930,
entered the computer field in 1938 as an actuary using
punched card machines for the Prudential Insurance
Company of America, and worked with Howard Aiken
during the war as an active-duty naval reserve officer.
After the war, he returned briefly to Prudential, where
he participated in studies that led to the purchase of a
UNIVAC I. In 1947, a meeting to which he invited seven
friends resulted in the establishment of the Association
for Computing Machinery, better known as the ACM.
Berkeley was the first member and acted as secretary
until 1953. He went into business for himself as Edmund
C. Berkeley and Associates in 1948 (later Berkeley
Enterprises), started a publication known as Computers
and Automation in 1951, consulted for industry, and
This small extract was originally published in the
Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology,
Bulletin 143, Handbook of South American Indians Vol.
5, pp. 601–610. It briefly describes number systems, B 137