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

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[First posted in AWOL 15 December 2010. Updated 13 May 2013]

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: Preprints

The following Preprints relating to antiquity are available online

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Irina Tupikova & Klaus Geus, The Circumference of the Earth and Ptolemy’s World Map Download as PDF File (660 KB)

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Jens Høyrup, A hypothetical history of Old Babylonian mathematics: places, passages, stages, development Download as PDF File (256 KB) 
 
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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)
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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)
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Florentina Badalanova Geller, 2 (Slavonic Apocalypse of) Enoch: Text and Context
Download as PDF File 
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M. J. Geller, Look to the Stars: Babylonian medicine, magic, astrology and melothesia
Download as PDF File
(5,4 MB)
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Zur Shalev, Christian Pilgrimage and Ritual Measurement in Jerusalem
Download as PDF File
(256 KB) 
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Larrie D. Ferreiro, The Aristotelian Heritage in Early Naval Architecture, from the Venetian Arsenal to the French Navy, 1500–1700
Download as PDF File
(432 KB) 
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Karine Chemla, Canon and commentary in ancient China: An outlook based on mathematical sources
Download as PDF File
(584 KB) 
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István M. Bodnár, Oenopides of Chius: A survey of the modern literature with a collection of the ancient testimonia
Download as PDF File
(1,5 MB) 
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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
Download as PDF File
(776 KB) 
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István M. Bodnár, Aristotle’s rewinding spheres: Three options and their difficulties
Download as PDF File
(256 KB) 
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M. J. Geller, Akkadian Healing Therapies in the Babylonian Talmud
Download as PDF File
(484 KB) 
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Robert Englund, The State of Decipherment of Proto-Elamite
Download as PDF File
(1,1 MB) 
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Peter Damerow, Jürgen Renn, Simone Rieger, Paul Weinig, Mechanical Knowledge and Pompeian Balances
Out of print. Download as PDF File (12,8 MB)
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Peter Damerow, The Origins of Writing as a Problem of Historical Epistemology
Out of print. Download as PDF File (1 MB) 
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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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