BIBLIOGRAPHY 



The list of the principal publications relating to Egypt 

 and Chaldea may be found in the following works : G. 

 Jequier, Histoire de la civilisation egyptienne. 2nd edit. 

 Payot, Paris 1923. — L. Delaporte, La Mesopotamie ; les 

 civilisations babyloniennes et assyriennes. Bibliographic de 

 synthase historique. Renaissance du Livre. Paris 1923. 



A biography of both Greek and Roman science is given 

 by L. Laurand, Manuel des etudes grecques et latines. 

 Appendix I, Les sciences dans V Antiquite. Picard, Paris 

 1923. For a more complete systematic account see the 

 chapter on the exact sciences and medicine by M. Heiberg 

 in the work : A. Gercke and E. Norden, Einleitung in 

 die Altertumswissenschaft. 3rd edit. Teubner, Leipzig 1922. 



It must be remembered that the history of sciences in 

 the past presents peculiar difficulties. Considering that 

 their character was purely objective, tradition often omits 

 to mention the names of those who made or perfected 

 certain discoveries. As the sciences progressed, the works 

 of an earlier period, except those which had become classics, 

 were constantly absorbed by works which a later period 

 considered superior. Thus the earlier works disappeared 

 and their titles scarcely have been preserved. Under 

 these conditions, it is very difficult to accurately determine 

 the date and origin of the information handed down to us 

 by the scientific literature of antiquity. We therefore limit 

 ourselves to certain indications. 



History of the Sources. — H. Diels, Doxographi graeci. 

 Reimer. Berlin 1879. — J.-L. Heiberg, work cited, 

 Einleitung in die Altertumswissenschaft. — J.-L. Heiberg, 

 Les sciences grecques et leaf transmission. Scientia, vol. 

 XXXI, p. 1 and p. 97. — F. Ueberweg, Grundriss der 

 Geschichte der Philosophic, nth edition, p. 16 et seq. Vol. 



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