Ancient Egyptian Science, Vol. III: A Source Book, Ancient Egyptian Mathematics, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 232)

by Marshall Clagett

Continues Clagett's studies of the various aspects of the science of Ancient Egypt. Like its predecessors, it has two main objectives: first to summarize & analyze the principal features of a nascent & yet important part of that science, namely its mathematics, & second to present in English six of the most important mathematical documents on which the preceding analysis was based. Thus we find treated in the first part of the work Egyptian measurement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871692325
• ISBN13: 9780871692320
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 863 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"