The Number Concept: Its Origin and DevelopmentConant, Levi L. (Levi Leonard)
History
The Number Concept: Its Origin and Development
Conant, Levi L. (Levi Leonard)
Number concept
[209] Crawfurd, _History of the Indian Archipelago_, Vol. I. p. 256.
[210] Pott, _Zaehlmethode_, p. 39.
[211] _Op. cit._, p. 41.
[212] Mueller, _Sprachwissenschaft_, II. i. p. 317. See also Chap. III.,
_supra_.
[213] Long, S.H., _Expedition_, Vol. II. p. lxxviii.
[214] Martius, _Glossaria Ling. Brasil._, p. 246.
[215] Hale, _Ethnography and Philology_, p. 434.
[216] Mueller, _Sprachwissenschaft_, II. ii. p. 82.
[217] The information upon which the above statements are based was
obtained from Mr. W.L. Williams, of Gisborne, N.Z.
[218] _Primitive Culture_, Vol. I. p. 268.
[219] Ralph, Julian, _Harper's Monthly_, Vol. 86, p. 184.
[220] Lappenberg, J.M., _History of Eng. under the Anglo-Saxon Kings_, Vol.
I. p. 82.
[221] The compilation of this table was suggested by a comparison found in
the _Bulletin Soc. Anth. de Paris_, 1886, p. 90.
[222] Hale, _Ethnography and Philology_, p. 126.
[223] Mueller, _Sprachwissenschaft_, II. ii. p. 183.
[224] Bachofen, J.J., _Antiquarische Briefe_, Vol. I. pp. 101-115, and Vol.
II. pp. 1-90.
[225] An extended table of this kind may be found in the last part of
Nystrom's _Mechanics_.
[226] Schubert, H., quoting Robert Flegel, in Neumayer's _Anleitung zu
Wissenschaftlichen Beobachtung auf Reisen_, Vol. II. p. 290.
[227] These numerals, and those in all the sets immediately following,
except those for which the authority is given, are to be found in Chapter
III.
[228] Codrington, _The Melanesian Languages_, p. 222.
[229] Mueller, _Sprachwissenschaft_, II. ii. p. 83.
[230] _Op. cit._, I. ii. p. 55. The next two are the same, p. 83 and p.
210. The meaning given for the Bari _puoek_ is wholly conjectural.
[231] Gallatin, "Semi-civilized Nations," _Tr. Am. Eth. Soc._, Vol. I. p.
114.
[232] Mueller, _Sprachwissenschaft_, II. ii. p. 80. Erromango, the same.
[233] Boas, Fr., _Proc. Brit. Ass'n. Adv. Science_, 1889, p. 857.
[234] Hankel, H., _Geschichte der Mathematik_, p. 20.
[235] Murdoch, J., "Eskimos of Point Barrow," _Am. Anthr._, 1890, p. 40.
[236] Martius, _Glos. Ling. Brasil._, p. 360.
[237] Du Graty, A.M., _La Republique du Paraguay_, p. 217.
[238] Codrington, _The Melanesian Languages_, p. 221.
[239] Mueller, _Sprachwissenschaft_, II. i. p. 363.
[240] Spurrell, W., _Welsh Grammar_, p. 59.
[241] Olmos, Andre de, _Grammaire Nahuatl ou Mexicaine_, p. 191.
[242] Moncelon, _Bull. Soc. d'Anthr. de Paris_, 1885, p. 354. This is a
purely digital scale, but unfortunately M. Moncelon does not give the
meanings of any of the numerals except the last.
[243] Ellis, _Peruvia Scythia_, p. 37. Part of these numerals are from
Martius, _Glos. Brasil._, p. 210.
[244] Codrington, _The Melanesian Languages_, p. 236.
[245] Schweinfurth, G., _Linguistische Ergebnisse einer Reise nach
Centralafrika_, p. 25.
[246] Park, M., _Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa_, p. 8.
[247] Pott, _Zaehlmethode_, p. 37.
[248] _Op. cit._, p. 39.
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