Monday, March 31, 2014

Digital Preprints from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

[First posted in AWOL 15 December 2010. Updated 31 March 2014]

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: Preprints

The following Preprints relating to antiquity are available online
454
Klaus Geus and Mark Geller (eds.)
Esoteric Knowledge in Antiquity (TOPOI – Dahlem Seminar for the History of Ancient Sciences Vol. II) 2014
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445
Horst Nowacki
Archimedes and Ship Design 2013
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439
Irina Tupikova & Klaus Geus, The Circumference of the Earth and Ptolemy’s World Map Download as PDF File (660 KB)

436
Jens Høyrup, A hypothetical history of Old Babylonian mathematics: places, passages, stages, development Download as PDF File (256 KB) 
435
Jens Høyrup, Sanskrit-Prakrit interaction in elementary mathematics as reflected in Arabic and Italian formulations of the rule of three – and something more on the rule elsewhere Download as PDF File (124 KB)
430
Mark Geller & Klaus Geus (eds.), Productive Errors: Scientific Concepts in Antiquity (TOPOI – Dahlem Seminar for the History of Ancient Sciences) Download as PDF File (8,1 MB)
410
Florentina Badalanova Geller, 2 (Slavonic Apocalypse of) Enoch: Text and Context
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401
M. J. Geller, Look to the Stars: Babylonian medicine, magic, astrology and melothesia
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(5,4 MB)
384
Zur Shalev, Christian Pilgrimage and Ritual Measurement in Jerusalem
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(256 KB) 
371
Larrie D. Ferreiro, The Aristotelian Heritage in Early Naval Architecture, from the Venetian Arsenal to the French Navy, 1500–1700
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(432 KB) 
344
Karine Chemla, Canon and commentary in ancient China: An outlook based on mathematical sources
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(584 KB) 
327
István M. Bodnár, Oenopides of Chius: A survey of the modern literature with a collection of the ancient testimonia
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(1,5 MB) 
320
Jürgen Renn, Peter Damerow, Malcolm D. Hyman, Matteo Valleriani, Weight, Motion and Force: Conceptual Structural Changes in Ancient Knowledge as a Result of its Transmission
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(776 KB) 
289
István M. Bodnár, Aristotle’s rewinding spheres: Three options and their difficulties
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(256 KB) 
259
M. J. Geller, Akkadian Healing Therapies in the Babylonian Talmud
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(484 KB) 
183
Robert Englund, The State of Decipherment of Proto-Elamite
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(1,1 MB) 
145
Peter Damerow, Jürgen Renn, Simone Rieger, Paul Weinig, Mechanical Knowledge and Pompeian Balances
Out of print. Download as PDF File (12,8 MB)
114
Peter Damerow, The Origins of Writing as a Problem of Historical Epistemology
Out of print. Download as PDF File (1 MB) 
30
Peter Damerow, Prehistory and Cognitive Development
Out of print. See: Piaget, Evolution, and Development, ed. by Jonas Langer, Melanie Killen, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers 1998, Mahwah, New Jersey, London, p. 247-270. Download as PDF File (64 KB) 

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