Cultures of Computation and Quantification in the Ancient World: An Introduction

Forward … to the nineteenth century: Historiographic concerns about Reviel Netz’s ‘The Place of Archimedes in World History’

“…Nor was the place-value notation attested in astronomical tablets from Uruk and Babylon identical to the sexagesimal place-value notation to which old-Babylonian cuneiform tablets written almost two millennia earlier attest. Even place-value notations have a history, which does not only relate to making computations easier (Chemla, Keller and Proust 2022). In fact, Ptolemy's numerical notation and work are highly original and interesting.…”

Global monitoring of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in biota, water and sediments: its role in screening for unregulated POPs, in compiling time trends of regulated POPs under the Stockholm Convention (SC) and their relevance for biodiversity in a changing climate

“…The historiography of monitoring the environment and the related computational and quantication efforts to do so is an active eld of research. 1,2 The description and understanding of the extent to which monitoring and quantication have occurred in all parts of the world for millennia interacting on a global scale is in itself a historical process. What is thought today about the history of science, technology and culture disputes and undermines forms of hegemony that dominated the eld from the 19th century.…”

Egipticas E O Algoritmo De Fibonacci : História Da Matemática Versus Livros Didáticos Atuais

“…La remise en cause explicite de la représentation des quantièmes dans l'oeil du Dieu n'est pas intégrée dans la sphère éducative ; elle date pourtant au plus tardde Ritter (2002). Plus encore, une bon tiers de notre corpus présente explicitement les « fractions égyptiennes » comme un véritable « système » avec des fractions unitaires, sans revenir sur l'historiographie et la notion même de fractions ou de concept de nombres(HØYRUP, 2019 ;CHEMLA, 2022). Nous décelons ici des «occasions manquées».…”