Numbers and numeracy in the Greek polis / / edited by Robert Sing, Tazuko van Berkel, and Robin Osborne

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910795550603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , [2021]; ©2021
• ISBN: 9789004467224; 900446722X; 9789004467217
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrations (some color)
• Collana: Mnemosyne, Supplements, history and archaeology of classical antiquity ; volume 446
• Disciplina: 510.938
• Soggetti: Mathematics, Greek; Numeration
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A counting people : valuing numeracy in democratic Athens / Lisa Kallet -- The appearance of numbers / Robin Osborne -- Punishing and valuing / Steve Johnstone -- Ten thousand : fines, numbers and institutional change in fifth-century Athens / Josine Blok -- Numeric communication in the Greek historians : quantification and qualification / Catherine Rubincam -- Creative accounting? Strategies of enumeration in Epinician texts / Daniel Mahendra Jan Sicka -- Hidden judgments and failing figures : Nicias' number rhetoric / Tazuko Angela van Berkel -- Performing numbers in the Attic orator / Robert Sing -- Numbers, ontologically speaking : Plato on numerosity / George Florin Calian -- Doing geometry without numbers : re-reading Euclid's Elements / Eunsoo Lee.
• Sommario/riassunto: "We tend to think of numbers as inherently objective and precise. Yet the diverse ways in which ancient Greeks used numbers illustrates that counting is actually shaped by context-specific and culturally-dependent choices: what should be counted and how, who should count, and how should the results be shared? This volume is the first to focus on the generation and use of numbers in the polis to quantify, ; communicate and persuade. Its papers demonstrate the rich insights that can be gained into ancient Greek societies by reappraising seemingly straightforward examples of quantification as reflections of daily life and cultural understanding"--

British Intelligence Operations As They Relate to Britain's Defeat at Yorktown 1781

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910163358203321
• Autore: Conley Scott E
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bielefeld : , : Pickle Partners Publishing, , 2012; ©2012
• ISBN: 9781782896753; 1782896759
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (79 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.33
• Soggetti: Espionage, British; United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: This paper examines the role of British intelligence operations during the American Revolutionary War as they apply to the British defeat at Yorktown. It begins with a brief history of British intelligence prior to the war, discusses strategic collection against the burgeoning French-American alliance, examines preconceptions during the planning of the southern campaign, and analyses the tactical intelligence operations of Lord Charles Cornwallis' army from the British victory at Charleston in 1780, through the defeat at Yorktown in 1781. It concludes that at the strategic level British intelligence accurately monitored French assistance to the Americans but had difficulty using the information to effect meaningful action on the American continent. At the operational level, General Sir Henry Clinton developed an accurate, reliable intelligence system in the northern colonies but was unable to transfer ; those successes to the southern theater. At the tactical level, General Cornwallis suffered from initial misconception about the degree of loyalist support in the South, lacked a general knowledge of the physical terrain in the southern colonies and failed to conduct proactive, deep reconnaissance during operations.