The Exact Sciences in Antiquity

Informationen zum Autor Otto Neugebauer: Exacting HistoryNeugebauer's The Exact Sciences in Antiquity became an instant unique classic of scientific literature when first published in 1951 in the United States and in Copenhagen where he had lived and worked for some years after having been forced out of Germany because of his opposition to National Socialism. At the start of World War II, Otto Neugebauer (1899-1990) left Europe for Brown University where he founded the History of Mathematics Department. Years later a colleague at Brown recalled Neugebauer's eloquent summary of the dark years in Germany: "If you never heard the sound of Nazi boots below you in the street, you cannot understand the history of the period." In the 1980s he moved to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He wrote several books and many articles in addition to The Exact Sciences in Antiquity. His monumental three-volume History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy (1975) is the definitive work on the subject. Dover reprinted The Exact Sciences in Antiquity in 1969. Critical Acclaim for Otto Neugebauer:"Otto Neugebauer was the most original and productive scholar of the history of the exact sciences, perhaps of the history of science, of our age. He began as a mathematician, turned first to Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics, and then took up the history of mathematical astronomy, to which he afterward devoted the greatest part of his attention. In a career of sixty-five years, he to a great extent created our understanding of mathematical astronomy from Babylon and Egypt, through Greco-Roman antiquity, to India, Islam, and Europe of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Through his colleagues, students, and many readers, his influence on the study of the history of the exact sciences remains profound, even definitive." ? N. M. Swerdlow Klappentext One of the foremost workers in the area of premodern science presents the standard nontechnical coverage of Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics and astronomy and their transmission into the Hellenistic world. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of PlatesIntroductionChapter I. Numbers Bibliography to Chapter I Notes and References to Chapter IChapter II. Babylonian Mathematics Bibliography to Chapter II Notes and References to Chapter IIChapter III. The Sources; their Decipherment and Evaluation Notes to Chapter IIIChapter IV. Egyptian Mathematics and Astronomy Bibliography to Chapter IV Notes and References to Chapter IVChapter V. Babylonian Astronomy Bibliography to Chapter V Notes and References to Chapter VChapter VI. Origin and Transmission of Hellenistic Science Bibliography to Chapter VI Notes and References to Chatpter VIAppendix I. The Ptolemaic System Bibliography to Appendix I Notes and References to Appendix IAppendix II. On Greek Mathematics Bibliography to Appendix II Notes and References to Appendix IIThe Zodiacal and Planetary SignsChronological TableIndex...

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Otto Neugebauer: Exacting History Neugebauer's The Exact Sciences in Antiquity became an instant unique classic of scientific literature when first published in 1951 in the United States and in Copenhagen where he had lived and worked for some years after having been forced out of Germany because of his opposition to National Socialism. At the start of World War II, Otto Neugebauer (1899-1990) left Europe for Brown University where he founded the History of Mathematics Department. Years later a colleague at Brown recalled Neugebauer's eloquent summary of the dark years in Germany: "If you never heard the sound of Nazi boots below you in the street, you cannot understand the history of the period." In the 1980s he moved to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He wrote several books and many articles in addition to The Exact Sciences in Antiquity. His monumental three-volume History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy (1975) is the definitive work on the subject. Dover reprinted The Exact Sciences in Antiquity in 1969. Critical Acclaim for Otto Neugebauer: "Otto Neugebauer was the most original and productive scholar of the history of the exact sciences, perhaps of the history of science, of our age. He began as a mathematician, turned first to Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics, and then took up the history of mathematical astronomy, to which he afterward devoted the greatest part of his attention. In a career of sixty-five years, he to a great extent created our understanding of mathematical astronomy from Babylon and Egypt, through Greco-Roman antiquity, to India, Islam, and Europe of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Through his colleagues, students, and many readers, his influence on the study of the history of the exact sciences remains profound, even definitive." ― N. M. Swerdlow

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One of the foremost workers in the area of premodern science presents the standard nontechnical coverage of Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics and astronomy and their transmission into the Hellenistic world.


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List of Plates Introduction Chapter I. Numbers Bibliography to Chapter I Notes and References to Chapter I Chapter II. Babylonian Mathematics Bibliography to Chapter II Notes and References to Chapter II Chapter III. The Sources; their Decipherment and Evaluation Notes to Chapter III Chapter IV. Egyptian Mathematics and Astronomy Bibliography to Chapter IV Notes and References to Chapter IV Chapter V. Babylonian Astronomy Bibliography to Chapter V Notes and References to Chapter V Chapter VI. Origin and Transmission of Hellenistic Science Bibliography to Chapter VI Notes and References to Chatpter VI Appendix I. The Ptolemaic System Bibliography to Appendix I Notes and References to Appendix I Appendix II. On Greek Mathematics Bibliography to Appendix II Notes and References to Appendix II The Zodiacal and Planetary Signs Chronological Table Index

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