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Treviso Arithmetic
The ''Treviso Arithmetic'', or ''Arte dell'Abbaco'', is an anonymous textbook in commercial arithmetic written in vernacular Venetian language, Venetian and published in Treviso, Italy, in 1478. The author explains the motivation for writing this textbook: The ''Treviso Arithmetic'' is the earliest known printed mathematics book in the West, and one of the first printed European textbooks dealing with a science. The ''Arithmetic'' as an early printed book There appears to have been only one edition of the work. David Eugene Smith translated parts of the'' Treviso Arithmetic'' for educational purposes in 1907. Frank J. Swetz translated the complete work using Smith's notes in 1987 in his ''Capitalism & Arithmetic: The New Math of the 15th Century''. Swetz used a copy of the ''Treviso'' housed in the Manuscript Library at Columbia University. The volume found its way to this collection via a curious route. Maffeo Pinelli (1785), an Italian bibliophile, is the first known owner. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venetian Language
Venetian, wider Venetian or Venetan ( or ) is a Romance language spoken natively in the northeast of Italy,Ethnologue mostly in the Veneto region, where most of the five million inhabitants can understand it. It is sometimes spoken and often well understood outside Veneto: in Trentino, Friuli, the Julian March, Istria, and some towns of Slovenia and Dalmatia ( Croatia) by a surviving autochthonous Venetian population, and Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Mexico by Venetians in the diaspora. Although referred to as an "Italian dialect" ( vec, diałeto, links=no, it, dialetto) even by some of its speakers, the label is primarily geographic. Venetian is a separate language from Italian, with many local varieties. Its precise place within the Romance language family remains somewhat controversial. Both Ethnologue and Glottolog group it into the Gallo-Italic branch. Devoto, Avolio and Ursini reject such classification ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
