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A Mathematician's Journeys - Otto Neugebauer and Modern Transformations of Ancient Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016):... A Mathematician's Journeys - Otto Neugebauer and Modern Transformations of Ancient Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Alexander Jones, Christine Proust, John M. Steele
R4,364 Discovery Miles 43 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Looking at it from Asia: the Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of  Science (Hardcover, 2010): Florence... Looking at it from Asia: the Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science (Hardcover, 2010)
Florence Bretelle-Establet; Adapted by Karine Chemla, Catherine Jami, Agathe Keller, Christine Proust
R5,852 Discovery Miles 58 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How do Documents Become Sources? Perspectives from Asia and Science Florence Bretelle-Establet From Documents to Sources in Historiography The present volume develops a specific type of critical analysis of the written documents that have become historians' sources. For reasons that will be explained later, the history of science in Asia has been taken as a framework. However, the issue addressed is general in scope. It emerged from reflections on a problem that may seem common to historians: why, among the huge mass of written documents available to historians, some have been well studied while others have been dismissed or ignored? The question of historical sources and their (unequal) use in historiography is not new. Which documents have been used and favored as historical sources by historians has been a key historiographical issue that has occupied a large space in the historical production of the last four decades, in France at least.

Scientific Sources and Teaching Contexts Throughout History: Problems and Perspectives (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): Alain Bernard,... Scientific Sources and Teaching Contexts Throughout History: Problems and Perspectives (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Alain Bernard, Christine Proust
R3,664 Discovery Miles 36 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines the textual, social, cultural, practical and institutional environments to which the expression "teaching and learning contexts" refers. It reflects on the extent to which studying such environments helps us to better understand ancient or modern sources, and how notions of "teaching" and "learning" are to be understood.
Tackling two problems: the first, is that of certain sources of scientific knowledge being studied without taking into account the various "contexts" of transmission that gave this knowledge a long-lasting meaning.

The second is that other sources are related to teaching and learning activities, but without being too precise and demonstrative about the existence and nature of this "teaching context." In other words, this book makes clear what is meant by "context" and highlights the complexity of the practice hidden by the words "teaching" and "learning." Divided into three parts, the book makes accessible teaching and learning situations, presents comparatist approaches, and emphasizes the notion of teaching as projects embedded in coherent treatises or productions.

Cultures of Computation and Quantification in the Ancient World - Numbers, Measurements, and Operations in Documents from... Cultures of Computation and Quantification in the Ancient World - Numbers, Measurements, and Operations in Documents from Mesopotamia, China and South Asia (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Karine Chemla, Agathe Keller, Christine Proust
R4,613 Discovery Miles 46 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book sheds light on the variety of mathematical cultures in general. To do so, it concentrates on cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world, mainly in ancient China, South Asia, and the Ancient Near East and offers case studies focused on numbers, quantities, and operations, in particular in relation to mathematics as well as administrative and economic activities. The various chapters focus on the different ways and contexts of shaping numbers and quantities, and on the procedures applied to them. The book places special emphasis on the processes of emergence of place-value number systems, evidenced in the three geographical areas under study All these features yield essential elements that will enable historians of mathematics to further capture the diversity of computation practices in their contexts, whereas previous historical approaches have tended to emphasize elements that displayed uniformity within "civilizational" blocks. The book includes editions and translations of texts, some of them published here for the first time, maps, and conventions for editions of ancient texts. It thereby offers primary sources and methodological tools for teaching and learning. The volume is aimed at historians and philosophers of science and mathematics, historians of the ancient worlds, historians of economics, sinologists, indologists, assyriologists, as well as undergraduate, graduate students and teachers in mathematics, the history and philosophy of science and mathematics, and in the history of ancient worlds.

Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Christine Proust, John Steele Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Christine Proust, John Steele
R3,901 Discovery Miles 39 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume explores how scholars wrote, preserved, circulated, and read knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia. It offers an exercise in micro-history that provides a case study for attempting to understand the relationship between scholars and scholarship during this time of great innovation. The papers in this collection focus on tablets written in the city of Uruk in southern Babylonia. These archives come from two different scholarly contexts. One is a private residence inhabited during successive phases by two families of priests who were experts in ritual and medicine. The other is the most important temple in Uruk during the late Achemenid and Hellenistic periods. The contributors undertake detailed studies of this material to explore the scholarly practices of individuals, the connection between different scholarly genres, and the exchange of knowledge between scholars in the city and scholars in other parts of Babylonia and the Greek world. In addition, this collection examines the archives in which the texts were found and the scribes who owned or wrote them. It also considers the interconnections between different genres of knowledge and the range of activities of individual scribes. In doing so, it answers questions of interest not only for the study of Babylonian scholarship but also for the study of ancient Mesopotamian textual culture more generally, and for the study of traditions of written knowledge in the ancient world.

A Mathematician's Journeys - Otto Neugebauer and Modern Transformations of Ancient Science (Paperback, Softcover reprint... A Mathematician's Journeys - Otto Neugebauer and Modern Transformations of Ancient Science (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Alexander Jones, Christine Proust, John M. Steele
R3,383 Discovery Miles 33 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Scientific Sources and Teaching Contexts Throughout History: Problems and Perspectives (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the... Scientific Sources and Teaching Contexts Throughout History: Problems and Perspectives (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
Alain Bernard, Christine Proust
R3,809 Discovery Miles 38 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the textual, social, cultural, practical and institutional environments to which the expression “teaching and learning contexts” refers. It  reflects on the extent to which studying such environments helps us to better understand ancient or modern sources, and how notions of “teaching” and “learning” are to be understood. Tackling two problems: the first, is that of certain sources of scientific knowledge being studied without taking into account the various “contexts” of transmission that gave this knowledge a long-lasting meaning. The second is that other sources are related to teaching and learning activities, but without being too precise and demonstrative about the existence and nature of this “teaching context”. In other words, this book makes clear what is meant by “context” and highlights the complexity of the practice hidden by the words “teaching” and “learning”. Divided into three parts, the book makes accessible teaching and learning situations, presents comparatist approaches, and emphasizes the notion of teaching as projects embedded in coherent treatises or productions.  

Looking at it from Asia: the Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of  Science (Paperback, 2010 ed.): Florence... Looking at it from Asia: the Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
Florence Bretelle-Establet; Adapted by Karine Chemla, Catherine Jami, Agathe Keller, Christine Proust
R5,629 Discovery Miles 56 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How do Documents Become Sources? Perspectives from Asia and Science Florence Bretelle-Establet From Documents to Sources in Historiography The present volume develops a specific type of critical analysis of the written documents that have become historians' sources. For reasons that will be explained later, the history of science in Asia has been taken as a framework. However, the issue addressed is general in scope. It emerged from reflections on a problem that may seem common to historians: why, among the huge mass of written documents available to historians, some have been well studied while others have been dismissed or ignored? The question of historical sources and their (unequal) use in historiography is not new. Which documents have been used and favored as historical sources by historians has been a key historiographical issue that has occupied a large space in the historical production of the last four decades, in France at least.

Recueil de Noels Anciens Au Patois de Besancon. 3e Edition - Suivie Des Noels Au Patois de Vanclans (French, Paperback):... Recueil de Noels Anciens Au Patois de Besancon. 3e Edition - Suivie Des Noels Au Patois de Vanclans (French, Paperback)
Christin Prost
R573 Discovery Miles 5 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Recueil de Noels Anciens Au Patois de Besancon. 3e Edition - Suivie Des Noels Au Patois de Vanclans Par Humbert. (French,... Recueil de Noels Anciens Au Patois de Besancon. 3e Edition - Suivie Des Noels Au Patois de Vanclans Par Humbert. (French, Paperback)
Christin Prost
R574 Discovery Miles 5 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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