astragali

Financial historian Peter Bernstein, who described the odd-shaped astragali in his classic on risk, "Against the Gods," wrote that "Knight's ideas are particularly relevant to financial markets, where all decisions reflect a forecast of the future and where surprise occurs regularly."

Inherently Risky Business 2008

M.E. Cohen The first game of dice, played by ancient Greeks, Romans and E.yptians, used astragali, animal ankle bones that are more oblong than square.

Inherently Risky Business 2008

It might have been supposed that, after playing with astragali, dice, and cards for several thousand years, man would have arrived relatively early at some con - cept of the laws of chance.

CHANCE MAURICE KENDALL 1968

These “astragali” have four clearly defined surfaces and were probably the antecedents of the ordinary six-faced cube or die, specimens of which are datable as far back as 3000 B.C.

CHANCE MAURICE KENDALL 1968

The volute is here quite simple in shape; elsewhere we find it doubled, as it were, so that four volutes occur between the astragali and the abacus

A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Georges Perrot 1873

Under the volutes three rings, or _astragali_, may be seen.

A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Georges Perrot 1873

The astragali, the ibex horns and the volutes, may all be easily recognized here.

A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Georges Perrot 1873

These are the people who work the tin, which they melt into the form of astragali, and then carry it to an island in front of Britain, called

Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861

We suggest that all three astragali represent very similar allosauroids and that NMVP 150070 is closest in morphology to Phylogenetic position of the three new dinosaurs.

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-- Albert Einstein Dicing dates from the Stone Age, when sheep knucklebones, astragali, were the primordial "rolling bones."

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3 1986