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Unlocking the Numbers is for anyone who has wondered why, in the scriptures, everything seems to happen in forty years or forty days and why the Lord always seems to call on three witnesses. Arent two enough?George M. Peacock, who taught seminary and institute classes for nearly forty years, answers these and many other questions related to how and why numbers are used as symbols in the scriptures. He shows that numbers have messages that lend much to the accounts within which they are used. If all things are created and made to bear record of God, surely the possibility exists that numbers bear record of Him, writes the author. Unlocking the Numbers helps us appreciate the greater significance of numbers as it enlightens our minds and increases our understanding of what the Lord is really saying through his written word. ... Read more

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Good and informative, if needlessly polemical
A very fine book about non western mathematics, concentrating in such civilizations as Ancient Egypt, Babylonia, China, India, the Arab world, and to a lesser extent, precolumbian civilizations. There is a lot of information here. Unfortunately, the book is unnecessarily polemical. To highlight the contributions of non western civilizations to mathematics, Gheverghese feels the need to belittle all the time the western contributions to mathematics, which any independent observer would say were crucial ones. A worthwhile book for those interested in the topic, nevertheless.

Mathematics history
One of a number of interesting, popular mathematics texts published in recent years. The author traces many of it points of origin and its early developments. I would recommend this to anyone interested in math.

Good source on Chinese mathematics
One of the few books with detail on Chinese mathmatics. I would have liked more, though, as most accounts deal almost entirely in Indian, Greek, Arab and Egyptian mathematics.

Good information but with flawed sources.
There are better multicultural science and math histories out there. His actual information on the development of math in non-Western societies is very good, but in their relationship to Europe his information is faulty. First of all, in his criticism of Eurocentrism he quotes very out of date sources and pretends they represent current mainstream views. Also, he follows Bernal in claiming all Ancient Greeks claimed they got their knowledge from Egypt and Babylonia. Many of those quotes are severly out of context. Herodotus, Strabo and Diodorus quote Egyptian priests on their Egyptianocentric views, and those quotes are now taken to represent the thoughts of the GREEK historians, even when they are highly critical of those comments. For example, after Diodorus lists a large number of Egyptian claims such as being responsible for the education of Pythagoras and the foundation of Athens he criticizes those claims with quotes like these "By many other statements like these, spoken more out of a love for glory that with regard for the truth..they claim Athens as a colony of theirs" and "they offer no precise proof whatsoever for these statements." (Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Book 1) There are similar disavowals in Ammianus, Strabo and others. So whether or not the statements of Egyptian influence are true or not, it is hardly honest to claim Diodorus and most other ancient Greeks as supporters of the Egyptianocentric viewpoint.

Good information but with flawed sources.
There are better multicultural science and math histories out there. His actual information on the development of math in non-Western societies is very good, but in their relationship to Europe his information is faulty. First of all, in his criticism of Eurocentrism he quotes very out of date sources and pretends they represent current mainstream views. Also, he follows Bernal in claiming all Ancient Greeks claimed they got their knowledge from Egypt and Babylonia. Many of those quotes are severly out of context. Herodotus, Strabo and Diodorus quote Egyptian priests on their Egyptianocentric views, and those quotes are now taken to represent the thoughts of the GREEK historians, even when they are highly critical of those comments. For example, after Diodorus lists a large number of Egyptian claims such as being responsible for the education of Pythagoras and the foundation of Athens he criticizes those claims with quotes like these "By many other statements like these, spoken more out of a love for glory that with regard for the truth..they claim Athens as a colony of theirs" and "they offer no precise proof whatsoever for these statements." (Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Book 1) There are similar disavowals in Ammianus, Strabo and others. So whether or not the statements of Egyptian influence are true or not, it is hardly honest to claim Diodorus and most other ancient Greeks as supporters of the Egyptianocentric viewpoint. ... Read more

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Sir Perceval Peacock plans a party for those of his friends who were excluded from the Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast. ... Read more

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The Peacock Party : Child's picture/poetry book
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Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This eight-volume collection reprints rare, essential nineteenth-century Robin Hood texts--and in doing so re-establishes for scholars and readers a largely lost element of the remarkably rich and ever-popular myth.

In particular, the nineteenth century provided some classical fictional reformulations of the outlaw saga, in which the hero and his activities were re-interpreted in ways relating to the concerns and values of the period. Robin appears, for instance, as a Gothic adventurer, a romantic hero, a lost heir, a precursor of Baden-Powell, and even as a loyal servant of parliamentary democracy in its alleged origin. The substantial novels that embody these conceptions of the outlaw are little known, and quite unavailable until now.

Available as an eight-volume set or as individual volumes. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER IIITHE OPPRESSION OF GWENHIDWYNid meddw y dyn a allo Cwnu ei hun a rhodio, Ac yved rhagor ddiawd : Nid yw hyny yn veddwdawd. Not drunk is he, who from the floor Can rise alone, and still drink more ; But drunk is he, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise. A SIDE door, at the upper end of the hall, to the left of Seithenyn's chair, opened, and a beautiful young girl entered the hall, with her domestic bard, and her attendant maidens.It was Angharad, the daughter of Seithenyn. The tumult had drawn her from the solitude of her chamber, apprehensive that some evil might befall her father in that incapability of self-protection to which he made a point of bringing himself by set of sun. She gracefully saluted Prince Elphin, and directed the cupbearers (who were bound, by their office, to remain half sober till the rest of the company were finished off, after which they indemnified themselves at leisure), she directed the cupbearers to lift up Prince Seithenyn, and bear him from the hall. The cupbearers reeled off with their lord, who had already fallen asleep, and who now began to play them a pleasant march with his nose, to inspirit their progression.Elphin gazed with delight on the beautiful apparition, whose gentle and serious loveliness contrasted so strikingly with the broken trophies and fallen heroes of revelry that lay scattered at her feet' Stranger,' she said, ' this seems an unfitting place for you : let me conduct you where you will be more agreeably lodged.'' Still less should I deem it fitting for you, fair maiden,' said Elphin.She answered, ' The pleasure of her father is the duty of Angharad.'Elphin was desirous to protract the conversation, and this very desire took from him the power of speaking to the p... ... Read more