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Ancient Egyptian Science
A Source Book. Volume I: Knowledge and Order. Tome Two.
by Marshall Clagett
Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 1989 by American Philosophical Society
ISBN-13: 978-0-87169-357-0, ISBN: 0-87169-357-7

"This volume, the first of three volumes describing the major facets of Ancient Eygptian Science, concentrates on the origin and development of hieroglyphic writing, the scribal profession, the quasi-learned institutions in anciant Egypt. Professor Clagett has paid particular attention to the so-called Palermo Stone, the earliest annals composed in Egypt. This book is Tome Two of the two-part Volume 1."






Native Writings in Massachusett(1st Edition)
(Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 185)
by Ives Goddard, Kathleen Joan Bragdon, Marshall Clagett, American Philosophical Society
Hardcover, 791 Pages, Published 1988 by Amer Philosophical Society
ISBN-13: 978-0-87169-185-9, ISBN: 0-87169-185-X

"2 Volume Set: An ed. of all known manuscript writings in the Massachusetts language by native speakers. Because of the significance of these materials for many fields & areas of interest, basic linguistic, historical, & ethnographic analyses are included. Massachusetts is an extinct Eastern Algonquian language spoken aboriginally & in the Colonial period in what is now southeastern Massachusetts. The Indians speaking this language are t ..."






Ancient Egyptian Science
A Source Book, Vol. 1: Knowledge and Order (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)
by Marshall Clagett, Murphy D. Smith, Ives Goddard, David Borodin
Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 1989 by American Philosophical Society
ISBN-13: 978-0-87169-184-2, ISBN: 0-87169-184-1

"An interesting find was made by Zaki Y. Saad in a tomb of the First Dynasty at Helwan— two ivory pieces which, in his opinion, form the most ancient example of the djed-pi\\ar, which in turn he describes as 'the symbol of the god Osiris'. The djed-pi\\ar, however, is not consistently an Osirian symbol, at least not in its early forms. Only in the New Kingdom does it become unambiguously Osirian. Even so , do these pieces represent c ..."






Mathematics and its Applications to Science and Natural Philosophy in the Middle Ages
Essays in Honour of Marshall Clagett
by Edward Grant, John Emery Murdoch, Marshall Clagett, John Emergy Murdoch
Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 1987 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-32260-7, ISBN: 0-521-32260-X

"Originally published in 1987, this important synthesis represented the first effort by modern scholars to convey the variety of ways in which medieval scientists and natural philosophers used mathematics and mathematical modes of thought to describe natural phenomena. Eleven distinguished historians of science contributed original essays on the application of mathematics to natural philosophy, astronomy, cosmology, optics and medicine. ..."






Ancient Egyptian Science
(Vol 1 2 in 1)
by Marshall Clagett
Paperback, Published 1990 by Amer Philosophical Society
ISBN-13: 978-99927-2-335-7, ISBN: 99927-2-335-1

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