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This fully illustrated book outlines the ancient systems of mathematics and measurement and describes how they were used in mapping, surveying, telling time, trade and commerce, as well as in leisure pursuits such as games and puzzles, and in the occult.Oswald Ashton Wentworth Dilke is the author of 'Mathematics and Measurement (Reading the Past, Vol. 2)', published 1987 under ISBN 9780520060722 and ISBN 0520060725.
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