David Pingree
American mathematics historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Edwin Pingree was an American historian of mathematics in the ancient world. He was a University Professor and Professor of History of Mathematics and Classics at Brown University. Life Pingree graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts in 1950. He studied at Harvard University, where he earned his doctorate in 1960 with a dissertation on the supposed transmission of Hellenistic astrology to India. His dissertation was supervised by Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Sr. and Otto Eduard Neugebauer. After completing his PhD, Pingree remained at Harvard three more years as a member of its Society of Fellows before moving to the University of Chicago to accept the position of Research Associate at the Oriental Institute.
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- Weltbild und Astrologie in die griechischen Zauberpapyri (1968) (25)
- Denkmäler der Oase Dachla aus dem Nachlass von Ahmed Fakhry (1985) (20)
- HANDBUCH DER ORIENTALISTIK (1999) (1)
- Zur Eschatologie von Welt und Leben: Ein purāṇischer Text nebst Übertragung in textgeschichtlicher Darstellung@@@Zur Eschatologie von Welt und Leben: Ein puranischer Text nebst Ubertragung in textgeschichtlicher Darstellung (1959) (1)
- Jyotiṣa: das System der indischen Astrologie. By Hans-Georg Türstig. (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Südasien-Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Bd. 57.) pp. [ii], xviii, 351. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1980. DM 48 (1982) (1)
- The Siddhasāra of Ravigupta. Vol. 1: the Sanskrit text . Edited by R. E. Emmerick. (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland. Supplementbd., 23, 1.) pp. ix, 199. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1980. DM 76. (1982) (1)
- Typen von Sternverzeichnissen in astronomischen Handschriften des zehnten bis vierzehnten Jahrhunderts. Paul Kunitzsch (1967) (0)
- The Siddhasāra of Ravigupta. Vol. 2: The Tibetan Version with Facing English Translation. Edited and translated by R. E. Emmerick. (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland. Supplementbd. 23, 2.) pp. viii, 482. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1982. DM180. (1984) (0)
- Paul Kunitzsch, Glossar der arabischen Fachausdrücke in der mittelalterlichen europäischen Astrolabliteratur. (Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, 1: Philologisch-historische Klasse, 11.) Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1983. Paper. Pp. 117 (= 455–571). DM 30. (1985) (0)
- Book Review:Beweisverfahren in der vedischen Sakralgeometrie: Ein Beitrag zur Entstehungsgeschichte von Wissenschaft Axel Michaels (1981) (0)
- Erich Schilbach, Byzantinische Metrologie (Handbuch der Altertumswissenachaft, xii , 4), München: C. H. Beck; 1970. Pp. xxix, 291. DM 68. (1972) (0)
- Georg Bossong, ed., Los Canones de Albateni . (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie, 165.) Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1978. Pp. viii, 359. DM 90. (1980) (0)
- Book Review: Seneca's Natural Questions: Senecas Naturales Quaestiones: Komposition, Naturphilosophische Aussagen und Ihre Quellen (1992) (0)
- Book Review:Schriften und Bilder. Drei orientalistische Untersuchungen K. L. Janert, R. Sellheim, H. Striedl (1971) (0)
- Ptolemy’s Almagest (1985) (0)
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