In the Language of the Venusians

Tonietti, Tito M.

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Tito M. Tonietti⁵

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In Africa, the populations living along the upper Niger used to call the number 20,000 captif, which means “slave” in French. This indicated his price as that number of shells.

La dernière chose qu’on trouve en faisant un ouvrage est de savoir celle qu’il faut mettre la première.

[The last thing you discover when writing a book is what to put first.]

Blaise Pascal

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Tonietti, T.M. (2014). In the Language of the Venusians. In: And Yet It Is Heard. Science Networks. Historical Studies, vol 47. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0675-6_7

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