{"id":12969,"date":"2013-07-17T17:53:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T22:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=12969"},"modified":"2013-07-17T17:53:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T22:53:31","slug":"counting-with-your-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/counting-with-your-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting with your hands&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/counting_ones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12970\" alt=\"counting_ones\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/counting_ones.jpg\" width=\"437\" height=\"675\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/counting_tens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12971\" alt=\"counting_tens\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/counting_tens.jpg\" width=\"437\" height=\"656\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/counting_hundreds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12972\" alt=\"counting_hundreds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/counting_hundreds.jpg\" width=\"437\" height=\"666\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>(somewhere in 18th-century Italy)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I stumbled across these lovely images today&#8230; from an 18th century Italian book entitled <em>Scoperta della chironomia, ossia, Dell\u2019arte di gestire con le mani<\/em> by Vicenzo Requeno, a Spanish monk living in Italy. The book examines the gestural techniques as recounted in various Greek and Latin authors, concentrating on representing numbers with the hand.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/2012\/11\/15\/numerical-hands-1797\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\">source<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(somewhere in 18th-century Italy) I stumbled across these lovely images today&#8230; from an 18th century Italian book entitled Scoperta della chironomia, ossia, Dell\u2019arte di gestire con le mani by Vicenzo Requeno, a Spanish monk living in Italy. The book examines the gestural techniques as recounted in various Greek and Latin authors, concentrating on representing numbers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,7,9,17,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}