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The history of our world can be told through numbers. Numbers can illuminate the broad sweep of history, from vast movements of populations and the expansion of empires to the effects of technological achievements or climatic change. They also allow us to drill into the real detail of history, from the page count, the cost and the time it took to produce the Gutenberg Bible (the West”s first mass-produced book) to the price of Virginian tobacco in the 1620s, both of which had an immediate and lasting effect on the course of world history. And, just occasionally, numbers have the power to blow. Read more…
Abstract: The history of our world can be told through numbers. Numbers can illuminate the broad sweep of history, from vast movements of populations and the expansion of empires to the effects of technological achievements or climatic change. They also allow us to drill into the real detail of history, from the page count, the cost and the time it took to produce the Gutenberg Bible (the West”s first mass-produced book) to the price of Virginian tobacco in the 1620s, both of which had an immediate and lasting effect on the course of world history. And, just occasionally, numbers have the power to blow
تاریخ جهان ما را می توان از طریق اعداد بیان کرد. اعداد می توانند گستره وسیع تاریخ را روشن کنند، از جابجایی گسترده جمعیت ها و گسترش امپراتوری ها گرفته تا تأثیرات دستاوردهای فناوری یا تغییرات آب و هوایی. آنها همچنین به ما اجازه می دهند تا جزئیات واقعی تاریخ را بررسی کنیم، از تعداد صفحات، هزینه و زمان صرف شده برای تولید کتاب مقدس گوتنبرگ (اولین کتاب تولید انبوه غرب) تا قیمت تنباکوی ویرجینیا در دهه 1620، که هر دو تأثیر فوری و ماندگاری بر روند تاریخ جهان داشتند. و گاهی اوقات، اعداد قدرت دمیدن را دارند. ادامه مطلب…
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