Patterns > Sets/groups > Maths >Triangles > Trigonometry > Abacus > Arabic Numerals
Imaging in mind led to picto-graphs/picto-ligusitiscs. Think stick men, birds snakes/serpents.
Much of Fullers speculations on evolution of humanity revolves around maritime sea-peoples experiences. He believed trigonometry was invented by sea-peoples navigating between islands in the south pacific/Idonesia.
The oldest abacus'es ever found--- in China ---have 13 columns. I have a modern one and it has 13 columns. Fuller takes note that we have 8 fingers, 2 ankles, 2 wrist and 1 neck, that total to 13. A sea person could do trigonometry by moving circular loops of rope/hemp/seaweed from various positions on their body to do calculations.
Fuller take note of some peoples in eastern africa that have these shells or something with images carved into them, hanging from the ear lobes. So he believes these earliest seea-people could have had the celestial star charts carved into sea shells that they could hang from there ear lobes. So now, if a sea person is washed overboard, he could climb back onto his raft/canoe/primitive ocean going vehicle and not lost any of his mathematical tools, or charts because they were all attached to his body.
This may have led to the invention of the 13 column abacus with shells to slide on the stick or bone columens and better boats to store their mathematical charts and tools for doing the math's. Then some sea-person or peoples became stranded on desert lands, and wanted to do there mathematics/triaongometry but maybe there abacus has been lost and there is no immediate stock building and abacus.
So they draw it in the sand. They develop "hash" marks--- Fraggles remarks see babylonians ---but at some point they need a symbol for the empty first column. The ziphra/cipher/zero is invented is invented and later goes on to Europe--- via the Moors ---and changes the whole world from Romans more simple-minded hash marks, to the more more symbolic/abstract Arabic numericals.
I also take note of peoples in Indonesia( Borneo etc ) that take pride in their long extended/stretch ear lobes, that the may or may not have stuff hanging in them. They probably do for some relious reasons or whatever cause that is also what the acnestors have all done so it is passed on culturely. But the true orgins probably go bacl the need to have a place to have valuable charts attached to ones body, and less chance to loose valuable information if washed overboard at sea, on big river, or even on land.
r6
Imaging in mind led to picto-graphs/picto-ligusitiscs. Think stick men, birds snakes/serpents.
Much of Fullers speculations on evolution of humanity revolves around maritime sea-peoples experiences. He believed trigonometry was invented by sea-peoples navigating between islands in the south pacific/Idonesia.
The oldest abacus'es ever found--- in China ---have 13 columns. I have a modern one and it has 13 columns. Fuller takes note that we have 8 fingers, 2 ankles, 2 wrist and 1 neck, that total to 13. A sea person could do trigonometry by moving circular loops of rope/hemp/seaweed from various positions on their body to do calculations.
Fuller take note of some peoples in eastern africa that have these shells or something with images carved into them, hanging from the ear lobes. So he believes these earliest seea-people could have had the celestial star charts carved into sea shells that they could hang from there ear lobes. So now, if a sea person is washed overboard, he could climb back onto his raft/canoe/primitive ocean going vehicle and not lost any of his mathematical tools, or charts because they were all attached to his body.
This may have led to the invention of the 13 column abacus with shells to slide on the stick or bone columens and better boats to store their mathematical charts and tools for doing the math's. Then some sea-person or peoples became stranded on desert lands, and wanted to do there mathematics/triaongometry but maybe there abacus has been lost and there is no immediate stock building and abacus.
So they draw it in the sand. They develop "hash" marks--- Fraggles remarks see babylonians ---but at some point they need a symbol for the empty first column. The ziphra/cipher/zero is invented is invented and later goes on to Europe--- via the Moors ---and changes the whole world from Romans more simple-minded hash marks, to the more more symbolic/abstract Arabic numericals.
I also take note of peoples in Indonesia( Borneo etc ) that take pride in their long extended/stretch ear lobes, that the may or may not have stuff hanging in them. They probably do for some relious reasons or whatever cause that is also what the acnestors have all done so it is passed on culturely. But the true orgins probably go bacl the need to have a place to have valuable charts attached to ones body, and less chance to loose valuable information if washed overboard at sea, on big river, or even on land.
r6
It started out as hash marks (e.g., the still-common four vertical strokes with a diagonal slash for "five") and the hash marks slowly changed into curved symbols that could be read and written more quickly.
People had obviously been thinking in numbers, and had developed arithmetic, long before it became necessary to keep records. Before long they needed symbols for the various types of tasks and commodities for which people were paying: written words.
So it was actually businessmen who invented writing, not priests, scholars or rulers.
