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title |
description |
| Nicolino De Pasquale |
THE
SAVED KINGDOM
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An abacus, drawn by Felipe Guaman Poma
de Ayala (fig. 0), allows us to discover the Inca astronomical reckoning which is
founded on a mixed base 36-40 numeral system, built on numbers belonging to Fibonacci sequence.
Such an eccentric base, confirmed by many archaeological findings, reveals
considerable astronomical knowledge, like Venus and Mercury’s
cycles. The same
abacus shows the Inca sidereal solar year, with its upsetting accuracy,
and a wonderful perpetual
calendar, surprisingly based on number 5. Some application of the Inca
system, like the Atahualpa
calculator, is possible even nowadays.
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| Nicolino De Pasquale |
Egyptian Nuragic Trigonometry
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We propose the last research of our prof. Nicolino De
Pasquale. Starting from the Imenmes Games at the Louvre, he
reconstructs Egyptian Nuragic mathematics and trigonometry.
Clicking on link you can freely download and learn of the rotating
ruler of Imenmes and of mathematical and trigonometric functions that
are used in describing the growth of plants and flowers. A 3 D
extension of ancient Mediterranean knowledge lead to a wonderful Non
Euclidean space, which is very powerful in calculating direction
cosines.
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| Nicolino De Pasquale |
The Condor's flight |
First
article written by Nicolino De Pasquale dealing with the Incas' abacus,
base 40, published on the "Engineers' Roll Magazine"of Pescara
Provincia. Issue of October 2001. The same article was also published
on the Special Issue of October 2002 of the same magazine. |
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Maurizio Orlando
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The
Atahualpa calculator
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La Calcolatrice
Atahualpa Italian translation of the first article written by Maurizio
Orlando about the calculator that was carried out as a faithful
reproduction of the Incas' abacus, base 40, which had been decrypted by
Nicolino De Pasquale. Original article in Spanish language published on
the "Engineers' Roll Magazine" . Special issue of October 2002. |
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Nicolino
De Pasquale e Antonio Aimi
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Andean Calculators
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Despite the general
conviction that the data recorded on QUIPUSES were calculated by means
of YUPANAS (Mackey et al., 1990, Urton, 2002: 119, Sempat, 2002:124;
Quilter, 2002 (while doing accounts, making and untying knots would be
really too difficult….), not only have these YUPANAS had hard being
recognized as the main instruments of calculations in the Andean world,
mostly outside Peru, but, actually they have often been presented as
nothing less than fortress models even toys, too. |
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Nicolino
De Pasquale
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Mathematica
Maya
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First
article written by Nicolino De Pasquale about the Mayas' maths. Other
passages will be added as soon as the acts of the International Meeting
are published (the meeting, organized by the IILA - Italian and
Latinamerican Institute-, was held in Rome on October, the 21st 2003,
and dealt about the "Precolumbian Mathematical Calculation") |
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Nicolino
De Pasquale
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The
Huari Abacus
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At the
same time of the Tiwanaku culture,which was featured by a priestly
mould, the Huari culture was growing along the Peruvian coast. The
latter was quite similar to the former because it used the same
instruments and methods of calculation as described in the enclosure
dealing with the Huari abacus. |
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Nicolino
De Pasquale
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Inemnesis's
Games
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Article
by Nicolino De Pasquale about the Egyptians published on the magazine
of the Engineers Roll of Pescara. Inemnesis's games. 2003 |
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Maurizio
Orlando
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The
Incas' Abacus and New Architectures of Calculation
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Publication by
Maurizio Orlando dealing with the progress of the research into the
Incas' Abacus and some possible new ideas for the making of new
architectures of calculation. Offprint from the volume "Precolumbian
Mathematical Calculation", edited by Bardi, publication of the
documents of the same Meeting held on October, the 21st 2003 at the
IILA office in Rome. |
NB.
The authors are charged with all rights and responsabilities of the
contents.
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