The Sand Reckoner

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The Sand Reckoner

Summary

The Sand Reckoner is a written work[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (117 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Sand Reckoner authored Archimedes[3].
  • The Sand Reckoner's instance of is recorded as written work[4].
  • The Sand Reckoner's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 181794615[5].
  • The Sand Reckoner's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 1167803539917772286[6].
  • The Sand Reckoner's GND ID is recorded as 4491186-5[7].
  • The Sand Reckoner's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as nr2006007809[8].
  • The Sand Reckoner's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12189992d[9].
  • The Sand Reckoner's language of work or name is recorded as Ancient Greek[10].
  • -0250-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of The Sand Reckoner[11].
  • The Sand Reckoner's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01pc_m[12].
  • The Sand Reckoner's main subject is recorded as spatial scale[13].
  • The Sand Reckoner's main subject is recorded as finite set[14].
  • The Sand Reckoner's main subject is recorded as Fermi problem[15].
  • The Sand Reckoner's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • The Sand Reckoner's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/The-Sand-Reckoner[17].
  • The Sand Reckoner's title is recorded as {'lang': 'grc', 'text': 'Ψαμμίτης'}[18].
  • The Sand Reckoner's ProofWiki ID is recorded as Book:Archimedes/The_Sand-Reckoner[19].
  • The Sand Reckoner's Vatican Library VcBA ID is recorded as 492/10090[20].
  • The Sand Reckoner's Pinakes work ID is recorded as 711[21].
  • The Sand Reckoner's Yale LUX ID is recorded as text/386df5f9-2e59-430d-9022-ffd0e53be438[22].

Body

Designation and Status

The Sand Reckoner's instance of is recorded as written work[4].

History and Context

-0250-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of The Sand Reckoner[11].

Why It Matters

The Sand Reckoner ranks in the top 6% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (117 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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