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5.0 out of 5 stars
A remarkable work,
By Dan Moody (Hampden, Maine USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lengths, Widths, Surfaces (Hardcover)
In research for my own book to be, this source is the newest, most up to date, and comprehensive I have found covering Babylonian Mathematics. Otto Neugebauer's "The Exact Sciences in Antiquity" was monumental when published in the 1950s. This work of Hoyrup continues the analysis of some of the same and related sources and updates us with what has been learned in the last 50 years. Hoyrup has a broader survey of tablets that lend support to his new interpretations. This provides a source in english for many tablets that were previously only available in other languages. It also can serve as a list of original sources so that one could easily locate tablets for a specialized presentation. I am excited about this work and hope that its contents can "trickle down" to the level of common understanding. The modern world will see that Babylonians did not lack in their analytic abilities. |
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Lengths, Widths, Surfaces by Jens Høyrup (Hardcover - January 2, 2002)
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