Lexicographical Neighbors of Swanpans
Literary usage of Swanpans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland (1826)
"... as swanpans, they have been employed in the operations of manual or palpable
arithmetic by the Chinese, the Tatars, and the Russians J. The independant ..."
2. The Engineer's & Mechanic's Encyclopeadia ...: The Machinery & Processes by Luke Hebert (1849)
"There are large and small swanpans; those for mercantile purposes consist of many
rows of small balls strung on wires, containing fifteen balls on each, ..."
3. The Engineer's and Mechanic's Encyclopædia: Comprehending Practical by Luke Hebert (1848)
"There are large and small swanpans ; those for mercantile purposes consist of
many rows of small balls strung on wires, containing fifteen balls on each, ..."
4. The engineer's and mechanic's encyclopaedia (1835)
"There are large and small swanpans ; those for mercantile purposes consist of
many rows of small balls strung on wires, containing fifteen bails on each, ..."
5. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland (1826)
"... as swanpans, they have been employed in the operations of manual or palpable
arithmetic by the Chinese, the Tatars, and the Russians J. The independant ..."
6. The Engineer's & Mechanic's Encyclopeadia ...: The Machinery & Processes by Luke Hebert (1849)
"There are large and small swanpans; those for mercantile purposes consist of many
rows of small balls strung on wires, containing fifteen balls on each, ..."
7. The Engineer's and Mechanic's Encyclopædia: Comprehending Practical by Luke Hebert (1848)
"There are large and small swanpans ; those for mercantile purposes consist of
many rows of small balls strung on wires, containing fifteen balls on each, ..."
8. The engineer's and mechanic's encyclopaedia (1835)
"There are large and small swanpans ; those for mercantile purposes consist of
many rows of small balls strung on wires, containing fifteen bails on each, ..."
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