Things that Count ISBN:978-0-646-91968-3 - - Things that Count
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excerpt from site's contentpowered by Introduction On this page Welcome to This website describes a collection of antique calculators and uses it to help develop a historical account of the way humans developed the need and capacity to calculate the things they used to help them and how human societies and even human brains evolved with those d...
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