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The Exact Sciences in Antiquity - Otto Neugebauer
The Exact Sciences in Antiquity
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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, including the especially interesting, surprising sophistication of Babylonian... show more
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, including the especially interesting, surprising sophistication of Babylonian mathematics. 52 figures.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780486223322 (0486223329)
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction, History, Science
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This book came with a stellar recommendation from AC, and it does not disappoint. A lot of the time, I read a book I like and I can apply my overactive imagination and conceive of having written it myself. Like, if I'd happened to be French, born 40 years earlier, and about a dozen times as inventiv...
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A work of genius. Brief, dense, utterly right.(A biographical essay on Otto Neugebauer: http://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/oneugebauer.pdf)
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The Exact Sciences in Antiquity 2nd Ed - Otto Neugebauer
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The Exact Sciences in Antiquity - Otto Neugebauer
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History of Ancient Mathematical Astronom... History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy: Part 1 - Otto Neugebauer
Astronomical Cuneiform Texts: Babylonian... Astronomical Cuneiform Texts: Babylonian Ephemerides of the Seleucid Period for the Motion of the Sun, the Moon, and the Planets - Otto Neugebauer
Greek Horoscopes - Otto Neugebauer, H.B. Van Hoesen
The Calendars of Athens - W. Kendrick Pr... The Calendars of Athens - W. Kendrick Pritchett, Otto Neugebauer
Astronomy and History Selected Essays - Otto Neugebauer
Egyptian Astronomical Texts. Volume 1: T... Egyptian Astronomical Texts. Volume 1: The Early Decans - Otto Neugebauer
I. J. Bienayme Statistical Theory Antici... I. J. Bienayme Statistical Theory Anticipated. - Otto Neugebauer, C.C. Heyde, E. Seneta
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