THINKING ON PAPER: HINDU-ARABIC NUMERALS IN EUROPEAN TYPOGRAPHY

From: Visible Language | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Throop, Liz C | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

Western typography involves the 26 letters, punctuation marks and numerals as a whole "expanded alphabet." Between the 11th and 16th centuries the hindu-arabic numerals entered that alphabet, causing greater numeracy, much like the growth in literacy during that period, Europeans had to overcome ignorance and prejudice toward a foreign number system, but also had to adapt the numerals' visual forms to fit in with their existing alphabet. Westerners were at last able to work ou...

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