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Ancient Medieval Traditions in the Exact Sciences
Author | : Patrick Suppes,J. M. E. Moravcsik,Henry Mendell |
Publsiher | : Stanford Univ Center for the Study |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1575862735 |
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This volume of essays is dedicated to Wilbur Knorr, an outstanding historian of science whose career was cut short much too early. Inspired by Knorr's work, this volume concentrates on the history of ancient mathematics, the associated mathematical sciences, and their medieval and modern tradition. This volume emulates the quality and diverse interests of Knorr's innovative, exact, and far-reaching research. Topics inspired by Knorr include a study of geometric analysis and synthesis in ancient Greece and medieval Islam; examination of Eudoxus as originator for the ideas of proportionality underlying Book V of "Euclid's Elements"; and the extent that Renaissance theorists of linear perspective had access to ancient sources. This book considers the status of Eudoxus's theory of homocentric spheres in Greek astronomy and the examination of the status of in Greek mathematics. A detailed discussion of the geometrical chemistry of Plato's Timaeus and its interpretation in antiquity stems from Knorr's work, and a study of Plato's concept of numbers and its relation to the Theory of Forms. Knorr's varied interests motivate investigation into the representation of numbers in the Latin middle ages, or why we read Arabic numbers backwards, and the history of science in a chronology of the three dynasties in ancient China.
Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of David Pingree
Author | : Jan P. Hogendijk,Kim Plofker,Michio Yano,Charles Burnett |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 908 |
Release | : 2004-02-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9789047412441 |
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This collection of essays reflects the wide range of David Pingree's expertise in the scientific texts (above all, concerning astronomy and astrology) of Ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, India, Persia, and the medieval Arabic, Hebrew and Latin traditions. Both theoretical aspects and the practical applications of the exact sciences-in time keeping, prediction of the future, and the operation of magic-are dealt with. The book includes several critical editions and translations of hitherto unknown or understudied texts, and a particular emphasis is on the diffusion of scientific learning from one culture to another, and through time. Above all, the essays show the variety and sophistication of the exact sciences in non-Western societies in pre-modern times.
The Appreciation of Ancient and Medieval Science During the Renaissance 1450
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Author | : George Sarton |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0758116187 |
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From Alexandria Through Baghdad
Author | : Nathan Sidoli,Glen Van Brummelen |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 2013-10-30 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9783642367366 |
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This book honors the career of historian of mathematics J.L. Berggren, his scholarship, and service to the broader community. The first part, of value to scholars, graduate students, and interested readers, is a survey of scholarship in the mathematical sciences in ancient Greece and medieval Islam. It consists of six articles (three by Berggren himself) covering research from the middle of the 20th century to the present. The remainder of the book contains studies by eminent scholars of the ancient and medieval mathematical sciences. They serve both as examples of the breadth of current approaches and topics, and as tributes to Berggren's interests by his friends and colleagues.
The History of Mathematical Proof in Ancient Traditions
Author | : Karine Chemla |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2012-07-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781139510585 |
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This radical, profoundly scholarly book explores the purposes and nature of proof in a range of historical settings. It overturns the view that the first mathematical proofs were in Greek geometry and rested on the logical insights of Aristotle by showing how much of that view is an artefact of nineteenth-century historical scholarship. It documents the existence of proofs in ancient mathematical writings about numbers and shows that practitioners of mathematics in Mesopotamian, Chinese and Indian cultures knew how to prove the correctness of algorithms, which are much more prominent outside the limited range of surviving classical Greek texts that historians have taken as the paradigm of ancient mathematics. It opens the way to providing the first comprehensive, textually based history of proof.
Scale Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture
Author | : Reviel Netz |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 905 |
Release | : 2020-02-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108481472 |
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A history of ancient literary culture told through the quantitative facts of canon, geography, and scale.
The Origin of the History of Science in Classical Antiquity
Author | : Leonid Zhmud |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2008-08-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783110194326 |
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This is the first comprehensive study of what remains of the writings of Aristotle's student Eudemus of Rhodes on the history of the exact sciences. These fragments are crucial to our understanding of the content, form, and goal of the Peripatetic historiography of science. The first part of the book presents an analysis of those trends in Presocratic, Sophistic and Platonic thought that contributed to the development of the history of science. The second part provides a detailed study of Eudemus' writings in their relationship with the scientific literature of his time, Aristotelian philosophy and the other historiographic genres practiced at the Lyceum: biography, medical and natural-philosophical doxography. Although Peripatetic historiography of science failed in establishing itself as a continuous genre, it greatly contributed both to the birth of the Arabic medieval historiography of science and to the development of this genre in Europe in the 16th-18th centuries.
Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies
Author | : Sonja Brentjes |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 876 |
Release | : 2023-01-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781351692694 |
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The Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies provides a comprehensive survey on science in the Islamic world from the 8th to the 19th century. Across six sections, a group of subject experts discuss and analyze scientific practices across a wide range of Islamicate societies. The authors take into consideration several contexts in which science was practiced, ranging from intellectual traditions and persuasions to institutions, such as courts, schools, hospitals, and observatories, to the materiality of scientific practices, including the arts and craftsmanship. Chapters also devote attention to scientific practices of minority communities in Muslim majority societies, and Muslim minority groups in societies outside the Islamicate world, thereby allowing readers to better understand the opportunities and constraints of scientific practices under varying local conditions. Through replacing Islam with Islamicate societies, the book opens up ways to explain similarities and differences between diverse societies ruled by Muslim dynasties. This handbook will be an invaluable resource for both established academics and students looking for an introduction to the field. It will appeal to those involved in the study of the history of science, the history of ideas, intellectual history, social or cultural history, Islamic studies, Middle East and African studies including history, and studies of Muslim communities in Europe and South and East Asia.