Download or read book The Secret of the Peruvian Quipus written by Erland Nordenskiöld and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Part 1 The Secret of the Peruvian Quipus Part 2 Calculations with Years and Months in the Peruvian Quipus written by Erland Nordenskiöld and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secret of the Peruvian Quipus written by Erland Nordenskiöld and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Peruvian Quipu written by Leslie Leland Locke and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparative Ethnographical Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ancient Quipu Or Peruvian Knot Record written by Leslie Leland Locke and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparative Ethnographical Studies pt 1 The secret of the Peruvian quipus pt 2 Calculations with years and months in the Peruvian quipus written by Erland Nordenskiöld and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Supplementary Notes on the Quipus in the American Museum of Natural History written by Leslie Leland Locke and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quipus and Witches Knots written by Cyrus Lawence Day and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay in cultural anthropology provides a comprehensive view of the way primitive people in all parts of the world once utilized knots; mnemonic knots—to record dates, numbers, and cultural traditions; magic knots—to cure diseases, bewitch enemies, and control the forces of nature; and practical knots—to tie things and hold things together. In his discussion of mnemonic knots, the author analyzes the Peruvian quipus (or knot-calendars and knot-records) and suggests that the Inca astronomer-priests, known to have been accurate observers of the movements of the planets, may also have been able to predict the dates of lunar eclipses; and he shows how it is possible to manipulate the Ina abacus in accordance with the decimal system. His treatment of magic knots includes instances from Babylonian times to the present, with curious examples of the supernatural power attributed to the Hercules knot (i.e., the square knot) in Egypt, Greece, and Rome. His analysis of a little-known treatise on surgeons’ slings and nooses, written by the Green physician Heraklas, is the first detailed account of the specific practical knots used by the ancient Greeks and Romans. Quipus and Witches’ Knots, which is abundantly illustrated, often surprises the reader with the unexpected ways in which the once universal dependence of men on knots has left its mark on the language, customs, and thought of modern civilized peoples.
Download or read book History And Science Of Knots written by John C Turner and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1996-05-30 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together twenty essays on diverse topics in the history and science of knots. It is divided into five parts, which deal respectively with knots in prehistory and antiquity, non-European traditions, working knots, the developing science of knots, and decorative and other aspects of knots.Its authors include archaeologists who write on knots found in digs of ancient sites (one describes the knots used by the recently discovered Ice Man); practical knotters who have studied the history and uses of knots at sea, for fishing and for various life support activities; a historian of lace; a computer scientist writing on computer classification of doilies; and mathematicians who describe the history of knot theories from the eighteenth century to the present day.In view of the explosion of mathematical theories of knots in the past decade, with consequential new and important scientific applications, this book is timely in setting down a brief, fragmentary history of mankind's oldest and most useful technical and decorative device — the knot.
Download or read book Machu Picchu written by Richard L. Burger and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the status of contemporary research on Incan civilization, and addresses mysteries of the founding and abandonment of Machu Picchu, charting its archaeological history from 1911 to the present.
Download or read book The Ancient Quipu a Peruvian Knot Record written by Leslie Leland Locke and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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