Number Art: Thirteen 123s from Around the World

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Four Winds Press, 1982 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 61 pages
Traces the development of the various number systems that have been used in the world, including the Arabic, Armenian, Brahmi, Chinese, Egyptian, Gothic, Greek, Mayan, Roman, Runes, Sanskrit, Thai, and Tibetan systems.

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Number Art: Thirteen 123s from Around the World
Leonard Everett Fisher
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၃၉ Ahadun alphabetic letters ancient Brahmi ARABIC Modern European Arabic numerals Arba'un Armenian Ashta Trim Sat Asrun B.C. ATTIC Greece B.C. HIERO B.C. LINEAR became becoming the chief Buddhism Ch'i 10 Shih Ch'ien China Chinese numerals Chiu Christian counting board Crete Mycenae CUNEIFORM Babylonia Devanagari dot/bar system Egyptian Erh 4 Szu Europe expressing numerical amounts following pages FOUR WINDS PRESS Gothic Greek Hamsun Hariwr Hazar hieratic hieroglyphic Hunda hundred I3 San Indian numeral Ipnani Ishrun Kharosthi LEONARD EVERETT FISHER Liu 9 Low numbers mathematics Maya Mayan Million or Infinity modern numerals Mycenae NUMBER ART number system numeral system numerical notation numerical symbols numerical-unit symbols Ostrogoths Palapun Pamanin place-value notation place-value notation system Roman numerals runes Runic alphabetic Sab'un San 6 Liu Sanskrit Sapta script Sittun Szu 7 Ch'i Thais thousand Tibet Tibetan Tis'un Trim-Sat Ulfilas Vim-Shatih vinculum Visigoths woolly mammoths word number zero กกก

About the author (1982)

Leonard Everett Fisher is a well-known and prolific author and illustrator of children's books. He has also written for adults and created illustrations for magazines. In addition, Fisher was dean of the Whitney School of Art and a visiting professor at a number of schools. Fisher was born in 1927 in the Bronx, New York, and started to draw as a small child. After graduating from high school, he studied at Brooklyn College and then entered the army where he worked with a mapmaker. He holds a B.F.A. and a M.F.A. from Yale University. The first book that Fisher illustrated was The Exploits of Xenophon, written by Geoffrey Household and published in 1955. Fisher then illustrated and wrote numerous books himself. He is well known for the Colonial Americans series, for the Nineteenth-Century America series for young adults, and for many other nonfiction works. He has written two works for adults-Masterpieces of American Painting (1985) and Remington and Russell (1986).

Bibliographic information

TitleNumber Art: Thirteen 123s from Around the World
Illustrated byLeonard Everett Fisher
PublisherFour Winds Press, 1982
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedNov 12, 2009
ISBN0590078100, 9780590078108
Length61 pages
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Juvenile Nonfiction / Art / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Grammar & Punctuation
  
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