To hym prohybyte by dyuyne commaundement If he had noted the ende of his interpryse To EUE he wolde nat haue ben obedyent Thus he endured right bytter punysshement For his blynde erroure and improuydence That all his lynage rue sore for his offence.
"The Ship of Fools, Volume 1"
Sebastian Brandt
28-30; Biot, "Note sur la connaissance que les Chinois ont EUE de la valeur de position des chiffres," Journal Asiatique, 1839, pp.
"The Hindu-Arabic Numerals"
David Eugene Smith Louis Charles Karpinski