The exact sciences in antiquity

by Otto Neugebauer

Paper Book, 1969

Status

Available

Call number

510.093

Collection

Publication

New York : Dover, 1969.

Description

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.

Language

Original publication date

1952

Physical description

xvi, 240 p.; 21 cm

ISBN

0486223329 / 9780486223322
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