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Sounds interesting. I never would have assumed double-entry bookkeeping went back that far. Any good book suggestions?

el-salvador 4y ago
A 1914 English translation of his 1499 Italian books from archive.org: https://archive.org/details/ancientdoubleent00geij https://archive.org/details/ancientdoubleent00geij
briandear 4y ago
The Medici family supposedly invented it. Very fascinating family. https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/how-the-medici-family-created-and-lost-their-banking-empire/ https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/how-the-medici-family-...
puszczyk 4y ago
I enjoyed reading The Verge by P. Wyman https://www.amazon.com/Verge-Reformation-Renaissance-Forty-Years-ebook/dp/B08P1MF813 https://www.amazon.com/Verge-Reformation-Renaissance-Forty-Y... It describes changes that happened in war, mining, shipping, trade in (mostly western) Europe in the last decades of XV century. The common theme is finance and it includes a chapter on how bank houses became bigger and could secure much bigger loans (which allowed bigger states to wage wars, or rich individuals to bid for top titles ;)). Fun read.
- firstcommentyo 4y ago
  Welcome to MMXXII. About X centuries ago "we" imported the Hindu-Arabic numerals. I know, Latin numbers carry the myth of being more "safe" but really you should try the arabian numerals. They revolutionized math and eased reading text alongside. thumbs-up
  - rossvor 4y ago
    It's a convention to use roman numerals for centuries in some european countries. Parent poster probably just done it out of habit.
    - puszczyk 4y ago
      Thanks, I wasn’t aware it is not a “global” convention and wasn’t sure what does the parent make fun of. One learns every day :) I will be more careful about this when writing centuries in English the next time. Also this poster on quora have a detailed list https://www.quora.com/Why-do-we-write-century-numbers-with-Indo-Arabic-numerals-in-English-if-other-European-languages-use-Roman-numerals https://www.quora.com/Why-do-we-write-century-numbers-with-I...

A 1914 English translation of his 1499 Italian books from archive.org: https://archive.org/details/ancientdoubleent00geij https://archive.org/details/ancientdoubleent00geij

briandear 4y ago

The Medici family supposedly invented it. Very fascinating family. https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/how-the-medici-family-created-and-lost-their-banking-empire/ https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/how-the-medici-family-...

puszczyk 4y ago

I enjoyed reading The Verge by P. Wyman https://www.amazon.com/Verge-Reformation-Renaissance-Forty-Years-ebook/dp/B08P1MF813 https://www.amazon.com/Verge-Reformation-Renaissance-Forty-Y... It describes changes that happened in war, mining, shipping, trade in (mostly western) Europe in the last decades of XV century. The common theme is finance and it includes a chapter on how bank houses became bigger and could secure much bigger loans (which allowed bigger states to wage wars, or rich individuals to bid for top titles ;)). Fun read.

firstcommentyo 4y ago
Welcome to MMXXII. About X centuries ago "we" imported the Hindu-Arabic numerals. I know, Latin numbers carry the myth of being more "safe" but really you should try the arabian numerals. They revolutionized math and eased reading text alongside. thumbs-up
- rossvor 4y ago
  It's a convention to use roman numerals for centuries in some european countries. Parent poster probably just done it out of habit.
  - puszczyk 4y ago
    Thanks, I wasn’t aware it is not a “global” convention and wasn’t sure what does the parent make fun of. One learns every day :) I will be more careful about this when writing centuries in English the next time. Also this poster on quora have a detailed list https://www.quora.com/Why-do-we-write-century-numbers-with-Indo-Arabic-numerals-in-English-if-other-European-languages-use-Roman-numerals https://www.quora.com/Why-do-we-write-century-numbers-with-I...