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Ancient Loons : Stories Pingree Told Me.

Ancient Loons: Stories Pingree Told Me.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: A K Peters/CRC Press 2011.
Subjects:
Science.
Scientists > Intellectual life > Miscellanea.
Sciences.
sciences (philosophy)
science (modern discipline)
Science
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I: Setting the Stage: The Academic Milieu
  • Wilbour Hall
  • Otto Neugebauer
  • Abraham J. Sachs
  • Gerald J. Toomer
  • Enter David Pingree, My Protagonist
  • Part II: The Loons and How I Got to Know Them
  • Simon Forman
  • In Which I Meet Lord Dacre
  • Elias Ashmole
  • Thomas Allen
  • Siva and Parvati
  • Pythagoras
  • Priscillian
  • St. Christopher the Dog-Faced
  • St. Cuthbert
  • Vergilius Maro Grammaticus
  • Fredegund
  • The Fabricated Letters of Antony and Cleopatra
  • Elegabalus
  • A Few Thoughts on Mathematics and Theology
  • John Napier
  • Katharine Firth
  • Abu Ma'ashar and the Hurrians
  • Apollonius of Tyana
  • Charles-Benôit Hase
  • Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
  • Ringing Down the Curtain
  • Further Reading
  • Back Cover.