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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Apr 16, 2011
It was the Tuscans who started this off, according to my source...(A book, not net)
Started when 'Double entry Book Keeping was introduced with the advent of Arabic Numerals into Europe....
OK?
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Rosemary - reincarnated courtesy of BBCiD Posted Apr 16, 2011
Was it a guide book of some description?
My other guess would be something to do with food.
Unfortunately I can't find where I've put my current book re the credit note question. (Lisa Jardine's Worldly Goods, which I'm reading to keep my academic brain in shape.)
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bobstafford Posted Apr 16, 2011
The answer is not the book as such but might be useful if you had a book back then and perhaps now
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Geggs Posted Apr 16, 2011
End user of the written word... Lawyers? Historians?
Geggs
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Geggs Posted Apr 16, 2011
Not that there were many that could read in 1250 apart from the officers of the Church and the officers of the State.
Geggs
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bobstafford Posted Apr 16, 2011
The DGI
Now it is but then it was ..... issued by ..........
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shagbark Posted Apr 16, 2011
Double entry bookeeping.
It sounds like they could use a zero.
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bobstafford Posted Apr 16, 2011
+1 DGI geggs for the pointer
Not that there were many that could read in 1250 apart from the officers of the Church and the officers of the State.
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bobstafford Posted Apr 16, 2011
Bede 673-735 so no good try though +1 for the pointer to the chap though
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Apr 16, 2011
The only name I have is Leonardo Fibonacchi.....
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Apr 16, 2011
He brought Arabic numerals (including the '0') and double-entry book-keeping to Europe....
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bobstafford Posted Apr 16, 2011
Yes but he is 50 years early
+1 For the DGI in the last post though
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bobstafford Posted Apr 18, 2011
same profession as Bede or Leonardo see posts 51 and 53
could be useful with books but not only books
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