Jens Høyrup

Peter Damerow

from a workshop jointly organized by Altorientalisches Seminar, Freie Universität Berlin, Seminar für Vorderasiatische Altertumskunde, Freie Universität Berlin, Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education, Berlin

Changing views on ancient near eastern mathematics

Jürgen Renn

Peter McLaughlin

Gideon Freudenthal

The question of when and how the basic concepts that characterize modern science arose in Western Europe has long been central to the history of science. This book examines the transition from Renaissance engineering and philosophy of nature to classical mechanics oriented on the central concept of velocity. For this new edition, the authors include a new discussion of the doctrine of proportions, an analysis of the role of traditional statics in the construction of Descartes' impact rules, and go deeper into the debate between Descartes and Hobbes on the explanation of refraction. They also provide significant new material on the early development of Galileo's work on mechanics and the law of fall.

A Study of Conceptual Development in Early Modern Science: Free Fall and Compounded Motion in the Work of Descartes, Galileo and Beeckman

Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics

Hans J. Nissen

Robert K. Englund

Robert K.. Englund

This work brings together current scholarship on the earliest true writing system in human history. Invented by the Babylonians at the end of the fourth millennium BC, this script, called proto-cuneiform, survives in the form of clay tablets that have until now posed formidable barriers to interpretation. Many tablets, excavated in fragments from ancient dump sites, lack a clear context. In addition, the purpose of the earliest tablets was not to record language but to monitor the administration of local economies by means of a numerical system.

Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East

Archaic Bookkeeping

Peter Damerow

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