Tradition, Transmission, Transformation: Proceedings of Two Conferences on Pre-Modern Science Held at the University of Oklahoma

by Steven John Livesey, F.J. Ragep, F. Jamil Ragep

This volume is the outcome of two conferences held at the University of Oklahoma in 1992 and 1993 which dealt with issues of transmission and subsequent cultural transformations that occurred in the premodern histories of mathematics and science.
Some twenty contributors explore transmission from a variety of perspectives, including the role of language and other facets of culture in the transmission process, the interaction of popular and elite...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004101195
• ISBN13: 9789004101197
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 591 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.