Jiuzhang suanshu is a very influential book in the history of Chinese mathematics. It is the earliest specialized mathematical work in China that survives to the present day. It is available in German (K. Vogel 1968), in Russian (R. I. Berezkina 1957), and in English (D. B. Wagner 1978). It is unclear when this book was produced. However it is estimated that the book was first assembled at the Han dynasty (during the first century).
This bibliography is a revised, enlarged and updated version of the bibliography on Islamic mathematics by Richard Lorch on pp. 65-86 of Joseph W. Dauben's The History of Mathematics from Antiquity to the Present: A Selective Bibliography, New York and London: Garland, 1985.
Instead of ten digits like we have today, the Maya used a base number of 20. (Base 20 is vigesimal.) They also used a system of bar and dot as "shorthand" for counting. A dot stood for one and a bar stood for five.
Commission on History of Science & Technology in Islamic Civilization
I came to the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and his Companions were sitting as if they had birds on their heads. I saluted and sat down. The desert Arabs then came from here and there. They asked: Apostle of Allah, should we make use of medical treatment? He replied: Make use of medical treatment, for Allah has not made a disease without appointing a remedy for it, with the exception of one disease, namely old age.
The Online Register of Scientific Instruments is an international database of historic scientific instruments and related objects available via the Internet. It is developed and supported by the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford in association with the Scientific Instrument Commission of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science
THE VATICAN SECRET ARCHIVES
(opened to the public by Pope Leo XIII)
RULES FOR SCHOLARS
1. The Archives are open to qualified scholars from institutions of Higher Education pursuing academic research.
2. Applications requesting access to the Archives should be submitted, accompanied by a letter of introduction from either a recognized institution of Higher Education or from a suitably qualified person in the field of historical research, to the Prefect.
Until one of the most important libraries in the world shifts its collections to a digital format, researchers will find themselves traveling to Rome and seeking permission to read documents in the Vatican Library and 'Secret Archives' collections. These pages, though mostly in Italian, include information in English about procedures for gaining access to the collections. This information may prove most useful to scholars of Early Modern European Science, Technology and Medicine.
The following pages contain a bibliography of secondary literature concerning the fortuna of classical authors to the year 1650.
Malaspina Great Books is a biographical database on Great Ideas. These are the living ideas that have shaped, defined and directed world culture for over 2,500 years. By definition the Great Ideas are radical.
The Warburg Institute of the University of London exists principally to further the study of the classical tradition, that is of those elements of European thought, literature, art and institutions which derive from the ancient world. It houses an Archive, a Library and a Photographic Collection.
