The History of Science
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Resource ID
1669
Access
Open
Contributed by
Frederik Wellmann
type of material
A. MS.
Category
HISTORY OF SCIENCE (MS 1268-1317)
description
Published, in part, as 7.267n8. Introductory remarks on the principles that underlie this attempt to write a history of science. CSP relies on his independent opinion in several areas, but notes deficiencies in several others including classificatory physics ("weakest spot"), mineralogy, crystallography, and biology. Candid evaluation of his knowledge of other sciences, e.g., geology and linguistics. The remaining pages concern the Egyptians and their science. The pyramids and the hypotheses of Egyptologists; failure of Egyptian mathematicians to understand fractions (errors in calculation of areas and volumes); the general stupidity of the Egyptians.
general index
Egyptian, Egyptologists, history of see also Astronomy history of; Mathematics history of
pagination
pp. 1-55, with 12 pp. of variants
Date
1892~
manuscript number
1269
publication
G-undated-5
topic
HISTORY OF SCIENCE
manuscript contains non-textual content
yes