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This book explores facets of Otto Neugebauer's career, his impact
on the history and practice of mathematics, and the ways in which
his legacy has been preserved or transformed in recent decades,
looking ahead to the directions in which the study of the history
of science will head in the twenty-first century. Neugebauer, more
than any other scholar of recent times, shaped the way we perceive
premodern science. Through his scholarship and influence on
students and collaborators, he inculcated both an approach to
historical research on ancient and medieval mathematics and
astronomy through precise mathematical and philological study of
texts, and a vision of these sciences as systems of knowledge and
method that spread outward from the ancient Near Eastern
civilizations, crossing cultural boundaries and circulating over a
tremendous geographical expanse of the Old World from the Atlantic
to India.
Ptolemy was the most important physical scientist of the Roman
Empire, and for a millennium and a half his writings on astronomy,
astrology, and geography were models for imitation, resources for
new work, and targets of criticism. Ptolemy in Perspective traces
reactions to Ptolemy from his own times to ours. The nine studies
show the complex processes by which an ancient scientist and his
work gained and subsequently lost an overreaching reputation and
authority.
In 1901 divers salvaging antiquities from a Hellenistic shipwreck
serendipitously recovered the shattered and corroded remains of an
ancient Greek gear-driven device, now known as the Antikythera
Mechanism. Since its discovery, scholars relying on direct
inspection and on increasingly powerful radiographic tools and
surface imaging have successfully reconstructed most of the
functions and workings of the Mechanism. It was a machine
simulating the cosmos as the Greeks understood it, with a half
dozen dials displaying coordinated cycles of time and the movements
of the Sun, Moon, and planets. A Portable Cosmos presents the
Antikythera Mechanism as a gateway to understanding Greek astronomy
and scientific technology and their place in Greco-Roman society
and thought. Although the Mechanism has long had the reputation of
being an object we would not have expected the ancient world to
have produced, the most recent researches have revealed that its
displays were designed so that an educated layman would see how
astronomical phenomena were intertwined with one's natural and
social environment. It was at once a masterpiece of the genre of
wonder-working devices that mimicked nature by means concealed from
the viewer, and a mobile textbook of popular science.
The Almagest, by the Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy, is
the most important surviving treatise on early mathematical
astronomy, offering historians valuable insight into the astronomy
and mathematics of the ancient world.
Pedersen's 1974 publication, A Survey of the Almagest, is the most
recent in a long tradition of companions to the Almagest. Part
paraphrase and part commentary, Pedersen's work has earned the
universal praise of historians and serves as the definitive
introductory text for students interested in studying the Almagest.
In this revised edition, Alexander Jones, a distinguished
authority on the history of early astronomy, provides supplementary
information and commentary to the original text to account for
scholarship that has appeared since 1974. This revision also
incorporates various corrections to Pedersen's original text that
have been identified since its publication.
This volume is intended to provide students of the history of
astronomy with a self-contained introduction to the Almagest,
helping them to understand and appreciate Ptolemy's great and
classical work.
This book explores facets of Otto Neugebauer's career, his impact
on the history and practice of mathematics, and the ways in which
his legacy has been preserved or transformed in recent decades,
looking ahead to the directions in which the study of the history
of science will head in the twenty-first century. Neugebauer, more
than any other scholar of recent times, shaped the way we perceive
premodern science. Through his scholarship and influence on
students and collaborators, he inculcated both an approach to
historical research on ancient and medieval mathematics and
astronomy through precise mathematical and philological study of
texts, and a vision of these sciences as systems of knowledge and
method that spread outward from the ancient Near Eastern
civilizations, crossing cultural boundaries and circulating over a
tremendous geographical expanse of the Old World from the Atlantic
to India.
The Almagest, by the Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy, is
the most important surviving treatise on early mathematical
astronomy, offering historians valuable insight into the astronomy
and mathematics of the ancient world. Pedersen's 1974 publication,
A Survey of the Almagest, is the most recent in a long tradition of
companions to the Almagest. Part paraphrase and part commentary,
Pedersen's work has earned the universal praise of historians and
serves as the definitive introductory text for students interested
in studying the Almagest. In this revised edition, Alexander Jones,
a distinguished authority on the history of early astronomy,
provides supplementary information and commentary to the original
text to account for scholarship that has appeared since 1974. This
revision also incorporates various corrections to Pedersen's
original text that have been identified since its publication. This
volume is intended to provide students of the history of astronomy
with a self-contained introduction to the Almagest, helping them to
understand and appreciate Ptolemy's great and classical work.
Ptolemy was the most important physical scientist of the Roman
Empire, and for a millennium and a half his writings on astronomy,
astrology, and geography were models for imitation, resources for
new work, and targets of criticism. Ptolemy in Perspective traces
reactions to Ptolemy from his own times to ours. The nine studies
show the complex processes by which an ancient scientist and his
work gained and subsequently lost an overreaching reputation and
authority.
The seventh book of Pappus's Collection, his commentary on the
Domain (or Treasury) of Analysis, figures prominently in the
history of both ancient and modern mathematics: as our chief source
of information concerning several lost works of the Greek geometers
Euclid and Apollonius, and as a book that inspired later
mathematicians, among them Viete, Newton, and Chasles, to original
discoveries in their pursuit of the lost science of antiquity. This
presentation of it is concerned solely with recovering what can be
learned from Pappus about Greek mathematics. The main part of it
comprises a new edition of Book 7; a literal translation; and a
commentary on textual, historical, and mathematical aspects of the
book. It proved to be convenient to divide the commentary into two
parts, the notes to the text and translation, and essays about the
lost works that Pappus discusses. The first function of an edition
of this kind is, not to expose new discoveries, but to present a
reliable text and organize the accumulated knowledge about it for
the reader's convenience. Nevertheless there are novelties here.
The text is based on a fresh transcription of Vat. gr. 218, the
archetype of all extant manuscripts, and in it I have adopted
numerous readings, on manuscript authority or by emendation, that
differ from those of the old edition of Hultsch. Moreover, many
difficult parts of the work have received little or no commentary
hitherto.
This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science
series is devoted to the history of science, medicine and
mathematics of the Old World in antiquity. Organized by topic and
culture, its essays by distinguished scholars offer the most
comprehensive and up-to-date history of ancient science currently
available. Together, they reveal the diversity of goals, contexts,
and accomplishments in the study of nature in Mesopotamia, Egypt,
Greece, Rome, China, and India. Intended to provide a balanced and
inclusive treatment of the ancient world, contributors consider
scientific, medical and mathematical learning in the cultures
associated with the ancient world.
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Healthy As a Dragon! (Hardcover)
Stepanka Sekaninova; Edited by Scott Alexander Jones; Illustrated by Veronika Zacharova
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When it comes to Bible translations, readability and reliability are what matter; and on both counts, the original Jerusalem Bible stands alone.
Reissued for the first time in over a decade, The Jerusalem Bible, Reader's Edition carries the imprimatur of the Roman Catholic Church. It meets the need for a modern translation based on the most reliable ancient texts. While it avoids the archaic language of the King James Version, it still holds to the traditional (noninclusive) language that appeals to conservative Catholic and Protestant Christians.
The Jerusalem Bible, Reader's Edition is filled with several appealing features:
- The complete canon of Holy Scripture, including the deuterocanonical books
- An English translation that is as close as possible to the literal meaning of the ancient texts
- Traditional, non-inclusive language
- Brief introductions to each book that orient the reader to the historical setting
- Limited footnotes where necessary to clarify only the literal meaning of the text
- Portable 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" x 1 7/8" trim size
- 8 point text
- Single column format
- Footnotes
- Jacketed Hardcover
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Ancient Egypt for Kids (Hardcover)
Oldrich Ruzicka; Edited by Scott Alexander Jones; Illustrated by Tomas Tuma
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World Full of Extremes (Hardcover)
Helena Harastova; Edited by Scott Alexander Jones; Illustrated by Lukas Fibrich
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R368
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Collecting Daniel Alexander Jones's plays and performance texts Bel
Canto, Black Light, Blood:Shock:Boogie, clayangels, Duat, Phoenix
Fabrik, and The Book of Daniel, this volume offers a panoramic view
of Jones's shifting, glimmering, transformational body of work.
Each play a provocation to the possibility of a more just world
with love as civic practice at its center, Jones's writing moves
with lithe and associative grace through histories personal,
political, cosmological, and sublime. A reunion not only of Jones's
revolutionary work in the course of twenty-five years in the
avant-gardes of New York, Austin, and Minneapolis, among others,
Love Like Light is also a reunion of collaborators and friends,
featuring essays by Vicky Boone, Jacques Colimon, Eisa Davis, Omi
Osun Joni L. Jones, korde arrington tuttle, Aaron Landsman, Deborah
Paredez, and Shay Youngblood and an interview with Faye Price.
Awarded the 2021 PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award for his expansive,
multidisciplinary, radical body of work, Jones has, in the words of
judges Jeremy O. Harris, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, and Leigh
Silverman, "continued perfecting a dramaturgy all his own based in
the traditions of Africana studies, performance studies, queer
theory, and mysticism, challenging established traditions while
creating space for audiences to ponder what theater is and who it
is for." A companion volume, Particle and Wave, features a
book-length conversation between Daniel Alexander Jones and poet,
scholar, and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs about Love Like Light
and the way that love, like light, suffuses everything and is the
condition and power of change in the world.
Ptolemy's "Geography" is the only book on cartography to have
survived from the classical period and one of the most influential
scientific works of all time. Written in the second century AD, for
more than fifteen centuries it was the most detailed topography of
Europe and Asia available and the best reference on how to gather
data and draw maps. Ptolemy championed the use of astronomical
observation and applied mathematics in determining geographical
locations. But more importantly, he introduced the practice of
writing down coordinates of latitude and longitude for every
feature drawn on a world map, so that someone else possessing only
the text of the "Geography" could reproduce Ptolemy's map at any
time, in whole or in part, at any scale.
Here Berggren and Jones render an exemplary translation of the
"Geography" and provide a thorough introduction, which treats the
historical and technical background of Ptolemy's work, the contents
of the "Geography, " and the later history of the work. Also
included here are unique color reproductions of maps from
manuscripts and early printed editions of the text, representative
of the beautiful and practical cartographic artistry that flowed
from Ptolemy's work. Historians of science, classicists, and anyone
who enjoys beautiful maps or map making will find this work an
indispensable addition to their library.
In a roving, shimmering conversation that took place in May 2021,
scholar, poet, and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs and playwright,
songwriter, performance artist, and educator Daniel Alexander Jones
discuss love as a foundational principle of artistic practice and
societal change. Reflecting on Love Like Light, Daniel Alexander
Jones's collection of seven plays and performance texts (published
by 53rd State in July 2021), DAJ and APG illuminate the ways in
which an attention to care, community, nuance, invitation,
perceptual particularities, and embodied conditions can resist the
profoundly extractive context in which life is lived and art is
made. As they discuss the work of Audre Lorde, Billie Holiday, Beah
Richards, Bayard Rustin, and Malcolm X, as well as that of DAJ's
grandma Daisy Mae and APG's grandmother, aunt, and niece, DAJ and
APG propose that love, like light, suffuses everything, and that
love, like light, creates a field in which transformation, justice,
healing, and radical beauty are not just possible-they are already,
now.
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