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The Exact Sciences in Antiquity
by O. Neugebauer

ISBN: 0486223329
Dover Publications Price: $12.95
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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 mathematics. 52 figures.


Table of Contents for The Exact Sciences in Antiquity
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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