Ancient and Medieval Traditions in the Exact Sciences
Essays in Memory of Wilbur Knorr

Distributed for the Center for the Study of Language and Information
300 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2001
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Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Patrick Suppes, Julius M. Moravcsik & Henry Mendell
The Role and Development of Geometric Analysis and Synthesis in Ancient Greece and Medieval islam
J. L. Berggren & Glen Van Brummelen
Eudoxus: Parapegmata and Proportionality
David Fowler
Pappus’ Notes to Euclid’s Optics
Alexander Jones
The Trouble with Eudoxus
Henry Mendall
Why Did Greek Mathematicians Publish Their Analyses?
Reviel Netz
Plato’s Geometrical Chemistry and Its Exegesis in Antiquity
Ian Mueller
Plato on Numbers and Mathematics
Julius M. Moravcsik
Why We Read Arabic Numberals Backwards
Charles Burnett
The Chronology of the Three Dynasties
David S. Nivison
Patrick Suppes, Julius M. Moravcsik & Henry Mendell
The Role and Development of Geometric Analysis and Synthesis in Ancient Greece and Medieval islam
J. L. Berggren & Glen Van Brummelen
Eudoxus: Parapegmata and Proportionality
David Fowler
Pappus’ Notes to Euclid’s Optics
Alexander Jones
The Trouble with Eudoxus
Henry Mendall
Why Did Greek Mathematicians Publish Their Analyses?
Reviel Netz
Plato’s Geometrical Chemistry and Its Exegesis in Antiquity
Ian Mueller
Plato on Numbers and Mathematics
Julius M. Moravcsik
Why We Read Arabic Numberals Backwards
Charles Burnett
The Chronology of the Three Dynasties
David S. Nivison
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