Status
Available
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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