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

This volume of essays is dedicated to Wilbur Knorr, an outstanding historian of science whose career was cut short much too early. Inspired by Knorrs work, this volume concentrates on the history of ancient mathematics, the associated mathematical sciences, and their medieval and modern tradition.
This volume emulates the quality and diverse interests of Knorrs innovative, exact, and far-reaching research. Topics inspired by Knorr include a study of geometric analysis and synthesis in ancient Greece and medieval Islam; examination of Eudoxus as originator for the ideas of proportionality underlying Book V of "Euclids Elements"; and the extent that Renaissance theorists of linear perspective had access to ancient sources. This book considers the status of Eudoxuss theory of homocentric spheres in Greek astronomy and the examination of the status of in Greek mathematics. A detailed discussion of the geometrical chemistry of Platos Timaeus and its interpretation in antiquity stems from Knorrs work, and a study of Platos concept of numbers and its relation to the Theory of Forms. Knorrs varied interests motivate investigation into the representation of numbers in the Latin middle ages, or why we read Arabic numbers backwards, and the history of science in a chronology of the three dynasties in ancient China.

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This volume of essays is dedicated to the late Wilbur Knorr, a historian of science. Inspired by Knorr's work, the essays concentrate on the history of ancient mathematics, the associated mathematical sciences and their medieval and modern traditions.

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• Authors: Patrick Suppes
• Assisted by: Henry Mendell (Editor), Julius M. Moravcsik (Editor), Julius Matthew Emil Moravcsik (Editor), Patrick Suppes (Editor), Patrick (Lucie Stern professor of Philosophy at Stanford University) Suppes (Editor)
• Publisher: Centre for the Study of Language & Information
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2001
• EAN: 9781575862736
• ISBN: 978-1-57586-273-6
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 16 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes; CSLI Lecture Notes; Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes; Lecture Notes; CSLI Lecture Notes (CSLI- CHUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)