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27cm
actual image size: 19cm x 32cm
Description
The Venerable Bede's (673-735) system of finger counting from Jacob Leupold's (1674-1727) 'Theatrum Arithmetico Geometricum', published in Liepzig, Germany, 1724. DACTYLONOMY, counting using fingers, is known to have been used at least four thousand years ago.
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