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Welcome to things-that-count.net. This website describes a collection of antique calculators (“collection Calculant”1) and uses it to help develop a historical account of the way humans developed the need and capacity to calculate, the things they used to help them, and how human societies (and even human brains) evolved with those developments. TEST
Welcome to things-that-count.net. This website describes a collection of antique calculators (“collection Calculant”2) and uses it to help develop a historical account of the way humans developed the need and capacity to calculate, the things they used to help them, and how human societies (and even human brains) evolved with those developments.
Welcome to things-that-count.net. This website describes a collection of antique calculators (“collection Calculant”3) and uses it to help develop a historical account of the way humans developed the need and capacity to calculate, the things they used to help them, and how human societies (and even human brains) evolved with those developments.
Welcome to things-that-count.net. This website describes a collection of antique calculators (“collection Calculant”4) and uses it to help develop a historical account of the way humans developed the need and capacity to calculate, the things they used to help them, and how human societies (and even human brains) evolved with those developments. TEST
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(Pascaline “1652” - working exemplar - - collection Calculant)
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(Replica Pascaline “1652” - collection Calculant)
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(Pascaline “1652” - working exemplar - collection Calculant)
But the same is true of invention. At different times and in different cultures there have been quite different views taken on the value of change, and thus invention. At some points in history the mainstream view has been that the crucial task is to preserve the known truth (for example, as discovered by some earlier civilisation - notably the ancient Greeks, or as stated in a holy book). A other times or places much greater value has been placed on inventing new knowledge. Even when invention is in good standing there can be a big question of who is to be permitted to do it. And even if invention is applauded it may be still true that this may only be in certain areas considered appropriate or important. This is as true in mathematics as in other areas of human activity.
But the same is true of invention. At different times and in different cultures there have been quite different views taken on the value of change, and thus invention. At some points in history the mainstream view has been that the crucial task is to preserve the known truth (for example, as discovered by some earlier civilisation - notably the ancient Greeks, or as stated in a holy book). At other times or places much greater value has been placed on inventing new knowledge. Even when invention is in good standing there can be a big question of who is to be permitted to do it. And even if invention is applauded it may be still true that this may only be in certain areas considered appropriate or important. This is as true in mathematics as in other areas of human activity.
Welcome to things-that-count.com. This website describes a collection of antique calculators (“collection Calculant”5) and uses it to help develop a historical account of the way humans developed the need and capacity to calculate, the things they used to help them, and how human societies (and even human brains) evolved with those developments.
Welcome to things-that-count.net. This website describes a collection of antique calculators (“collection Calculant”6) and uses it to help develop a historical account of the way humans developed the need and capacity to calculate, the things they used to help them, and how human societies (and even human brains) evolved with those developments.
(:description A site dealing with the history of calculators and calculating technology:)
(:description A site dealing with the history of counting, history of calculators, and history of calculating technology:)
(:description A site dealing with the history of calculators and calculating technology:)
The objects (:if equal {Site.PrintBook$:PSW} "False":)in “collection Calculant”(:ifend:) described here, which are used to help illustrate answers to these sort of questions, are drawn from across some 4,000 years of history. Each of them was created with a belief that it could assist people in thinking about (and with) numbers. They range from little metal coin-like disks to the earliest electronic pocket calculators - representing a sort of ‘vanishing point’ for all that had come before. (:if equal {Site.PrintBook$:PSW} "True":)For convenience, I will refer to this set of artifacts as “collection Calculant” (which are described in more detail in an accompanying web site - “things-that-count.com”)7. The name of the collection is taken from the Latin meaning simply “they calculate”8(:ifend:). The collection and the history it illustrates in a sense form a duet - the two voices each telling part of the story. The history has shaped what has been collected, and the collection has helped shape how the story is told.
The objects (:if equal {Site.PrintBook$:PSW} "False":)in “collection Calculant”(:ifend:) described here, which are used to help illustrate answers to these sort of questions, are drawn from across some 4,000 years of history. Each of them was created with a belief that it could assist people in thinking about (and with) numbers. They range from little metal coin-like disks to the earliest electronic pocket calculators - representing a sort of ‘vanishing point’ for all that had come before. (:if equal {Site.PrintBook$:PSW} "True":)For convenience, I will refer to this set of artifacts as “collection Calculant” (which are described in more detail in an accompanying web site - “things-that-count.com”)9. The name of the collection is taken from the Latin meaning simply “they calculate”10(:ifend:) The collection and the history it illustrates in a sense form a duet - the two voices each telling part of the story. The history has shaped what has been collected, and the collection has helped shape how the story is told.
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