18. HISTORY OF SCIENCE 

 IN SPECIAL CULTURAL GROUPS 



This chapter completes the preceding one. The national subdivision does not 

 suffice, for in addition to the many books dealing with the history of science in this 

 or that country, there are many more dealing with cultural rather than national (or 

 geographical ) entities. 



The items are classified under the following headings: 



Antiquity (in general) 



Ancient Near East (generalities, Egypt, Babylonia) 



Classical Antiquity 



Middle Ages 



Byzantine and Slavonic 



Israel 



Islam 



India 



Far East and Eastern Indies (Indonesia) 



China 



Japan 



ANTIQUITY (in general) 



Forbes, Robert James: 



1936: Bitimien and petroleum in antiquity ( 109 p., 6 tables, 2 maps, 54 fig., 

 Leiden; Isis 26, 536). 



1940- : Bibliographia antiqua. Philosophia naturafis. I. Mining and geology, 

 1940. II. Metallurgy, 1942. III. Building Materials, 1944. IV. Pottery, faience, 

 glass, glazes, beads, 1944. Nederlandsch Instituut voor het Nabije Gosten, Leiden 

 (Isis 36, 208). Parts V to X published in 1949-50. 



1950: Metallurgy in antiquity (490 p., 98 ill., Leiden). 



Partington, James Riddick ( 1886- ) : 



1935: Origins and development of applied chemistry (610 p., London; Isis 25, 

 504-07). 



ANCIENT NEAR EAST 



Archibald, Raymond Clare: 



1929: Bibliography of Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics. Appended to the 

 edition of the Rhind mathematical papyrus (vol. 2), see Chace, A. B. in the section 

 on Egypt. 



Neugebauer, Otto: 



1934: Vorlesungen Uber Geschichte der antiken mathematischen Wissenschaften. 

 1. Band. Vorgriechische Mathematik (224 p., Berhn; Isis 24, 151-53). 



Peet, Thomas Eric (1882-1934): 



1931 : Comparative study of the literatures of Egypt, Palestine and Mesopotamia. 

 Egypt's contribution to the literature of the ancient world ( 144 p., London; Isis 21, 

 305-16). 



Pritchard, James B. (editor): 



1950: Ancient Near Eastern texts relating to the Old Testament (quarto 548 p., 

 Princeton; Isis 42, 75). 



See in the Critical Bibhography of Isis the section 1. Antiquity, and 8. Asia, 

 Western Asia. 



