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Asger Aaboe's Degrees

PhD History of Mathematics Brown University
Masters History of Mathematics Brown University
Bachelors Mathematics Brown University

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According to Wikipedia, Asger Hartvig Aaboe was a Danish historian of the exact sciences and mathematics who was best known for his contributions to the history of ancient Babylonian astronomy. In his studies of Babylonian astronomy, he went beyond analyses in terms of modern mathematics to seek to understand how the Babylonians conceived their computational schemes.

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Asger Aaboe's Published Works

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Two Lunar Texts of the Achaemenid Period from Babylon (1969) (72)
Observation and Theory in Babylonian Astronomy (1980) (54)
Episodes from the early history of mathematics (1963) (50)
ON THE BABYLONIAN ORIGIN OF SOME HIPPARCHIAN PARAMETERS (1955) (48)
Scientific astronomy in antiquity (1974) (37)
Babylonian mathematics, astrology, and astronomy (1992) (37)
Episodes from the early history of astronomy (2001) (35)
Saros Cycle Dates and Related Babylonian Astronomical Texts (1991) (31)
On Period Relations in Babylonian Astronomy (1965) (24)
Remarks on the Theoretical Treatment of Eclipses in Antiquity (1972) (22)
A computed list of new moons for 319 B.C. to 316 B.C. from Babylon: B.M. 40094 (1969) (16)
Some Dateless Computed Lists of Longitudes of Characteristic Planetary Phenomena from the Late-Babylonian Period (1966) (15)
A Seleucid Table of Daily Solar (?) Positions (1964) (14)
From ancient omens to statistical mechanics : essays on the exact sciences presented to Asger Aaboe (1987) (12)
ON BABYLONIAN PLANETARY THEORIES (1958) (12)
On a Greek Qualitative Planetary Model of the Epicyclic Variety (1963) (5)
Two Atypical Multiplication Tables from Uruk (1968) (4)
"The Astrophysics of Berossos the Chaldean" (1968) (4)
A Babylonian Venus Text Computed According to System A: ACT No. 1050 (1998) (4)
Didactical and Other Remarks on Some Theorems of Archimedes and Infinitesimals (1996) (4)
Some Seleucid Mathematical Tables (Extended Reciprocals and Squares of Regular Numbers) (1965) (4)
A Late‐Babylonian Procedure Text for Mars, and Some Remarks on Retrograde Arcs (1987) (3)
Contributions to the study of Babylonian lunar theory (1979) (3)
Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics: Ptolemy's Epicyclic Models (1998) (2)
On period-relations in Babylonian astronomy (1967) (2)
Egyptian Astronomical Texts, II. The Ramesside Star Clocks (1965) (2)
A New Mathematical Text from the Astronomical Archive in Babylon: BM 36849 (1999) (0)
The Bequest of the Greeks. Tobias Dantzig (1957) (0)
Greek Geometrical Planetary Models (2001) (0)
Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics: Bibliography (1998) (0)
Notes & Correspondence (1960) (0)
Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics: Introduction (1998) (0)
Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics: Solutions to Problems (1998) (0)
A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy. O. Neugebauer (1978) (0)
Al-Kashi on Root Extraction. Abdul-Kader Dakhel (1962) (0)
Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics: Babylonian Mathematics (1998) (0)
Babylonian Arithmetical Astronomy (2001) (0)
Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics: Three Samples of Archimedean Mathematics (1998) (0)
Book Review:Early Astronomy: From Babylonia to Copernicus W. M. O'Neil (1988) (0)
Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics: Ptolemy's Construction of a Trigonometric Table (1998) (0)
Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics: Early Greek Mathematics and Euclid's Construction of the Regular Pentagon (1998) (0)
What Every Young Person Ought to Know About Naked-Eye Astronomy (2001) (0)
Book Review:A Scientific Humanist: Studies in Memory of Abraham Sachs Erle Leichty, Maria deJ. Ellis, Pamela Gerardi (1990) (0)
Book Reviews: Ancient Babylonian Astronomy (1984) (0)
Archimedes in the Middle Ages. vol. 1, The Arabo-Latin Tradition. Marshall Clagett. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1964. xxxii + 720 pp. Illus. $12 (1965) (0)
Kepler Motion Viewed from Either Focus (2001) (0)

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