10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SWANPAN»
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The Proposed Decimal Coinage, and Its Application to the ...
THE PROPOSED DEG IMAL G OI'NAGE, AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE
VARIOUS RULES OF ARITHMETIC, WITH AN EXPLANATION OF
T H E C H I N E SE ABACUS, OR SWANPAN. BY THE REV. FREDERICK
CALDER, M.A., HEAD ...
Rev. Frederick CALDER (M.A.), 1854
2
Double Entry by Single: A New Method of Book-keeping, ...
The original pebbles disposed in parallel grooves, or exchanged for perforated
beads strung on wires, were marshalled to the most intricate evolutions of
numbers in the swanpan of the Chinese, in the abacus ofthe Greeks and Romans
, and ...
Frederick William Cronhelm, 1818
3
Pantologia: A New Cyclopaedia, Comprehending a Complete ...
This is hardly credible; but if all the Chinese weights and measures be decimally
divided, as by his very lame description of the swanpan they would appear to be,
it is easy to conceive how compu. tation may be made by this instrument very ...
... John Moore unpardonably omitted by the author in his commemoration of our
countrymen •who have fought or fallen in Spain and Portugal, 390. Solano, Don,
governor of Cadiz, account of the massacre of, 1 25. Spain. See Jacob. Swanpan
...
5
The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal: ... To Be ...
The Chinese have, therefore, recourse to palpable arithmetic; and their swanpan
is almost exactly the same as the Roman abacus. That instrument, uni-i versally
used by all ranks throughout China, consists of a frame of wood, divided by a ...
6
Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the ...
Chinese swanpan. See Swanpan. (31.) Chinese, tea-drinking among the. The
Chinese method of drinking tea is not like; that of other nations. A small quantity
of bohea, sufficient to tinge the water and render it palatable, iser they drink no ...
7
Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal
The Chinese have, therefore, recourse to palpable arithmetic; and their swanpan
is almost exactly the same as the Roman abacns. ' That instrument, uni. versally
used by all ranks throughout China, consists of a'frame of wood, divided by a ...
8
Across the Himalayan Gap: An Indian Quest for Understanding ...
3rd Convert: (Taking up the Swanpan.) Here is one. I remove it. There is none.
Missionary: How can this apply? 3rd Convert: Our minds are not like yours in the
West, or you would not ask me. You told me again and again, that there never
was ...
9
The Bengal almanach for the year 1829...
By this machine, which is called a swanpan, arithmetical operations are rendered
palpable. It conists of a frame of wood, about an inch deen, and of various sizes,
from 4 to 12 inches long, by 2 to 6 broad, divided into two compartments by a ...
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The Bengal almanac, for 1827, compiled by S. Smith and co
By this machine, which is called a swanpan, arithmetical operations are rendered
palpable. It conists of a frame of wood, about an inch deep, and of various sizes,
from 4 to 12 inches long, by 2 to 6 broad, divided into two compartments by a ...
