Ancient Loons - 9781138114531

CRC Press

Ancient LoonsStories Pingree Told Me\nAuthor(s): Philip J Davis\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: CRC Press\nISBN-13: 9781138114531, 978-1138114531\nSynopsis\n\""Ah, Im Pingree. We meet again. Splendid. Wont you sit down?\""\nI looked around Davids room. Short of the library stacks, I had never seen so many books piled into a single room. Where could I sit down? Every square inch of horizontal surface was covered. Books, papers, notes, manuscriptsall congregated in random and chaotic disorder.\n\nThis small encounter and the snapshot of the protagonist on the cover of this book introduce the reader to David E. Pingree, the eminent classicist, Orientalist, historian of ancient science, and member of the Department of the History of Mathematics at Brown University. This is a book of his stories, retold by Phil Davis, award-winning author and raconteur par excellence, who reconstructs them from letters and many conversations with his friend .