A HISTORY OF SCIENCE 



1894, pp. 352. (Translated from the original German work 

 entitled Aegypten und aegyptisches Leben in Alterthum, Tiib- 

 igen, 1887.) An altogether admirable work, full of interest 

 for the general reader, though based on the most erudite 

 studies. 



4 (p- 47)- Erman, op. cit., pp. 356, 357. 



6 (p. 48). Erman, op. cit., p. 357. The work on Egyptian 

 medicine here referred to is Georg Ebers' edition of an Egyp- 

 tian document discovered by the explorer whose name it 

 bears. It remains the most important source of our knowl- 

 edge of Egyptian medicine. As mentioned in the text, this 

 document dates from the eighteenth dynasty that is to say, 

 from about the fifteenth or sixteenth century, B.C., a relatively 

 late period of Egyptian history. 



fl (p. 49). Erman, op. cit., p. 357. 



7 (p. 50). The History of Herodotus, II., 85-90. There are 

 numerous translations of the famous work of the "father of 

 history," one of the most recent and authoritative being that 

 of G. C. Macaulay, M.A., in two volumes, Macmillan & Co., 

 London and New York, 1890. 



8 (p- 5)- The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian, 

 London, 1700. This most famous of ancient world histories is 

 difficult to obtain in an English version. The most recently 

 published translation known to the writer is that of G. Booth, 

 London, 1814. 



9 (p. 51). Erman, op. cit., p. 357. 



10 (p. 52). The Papyrus Rhind is a sort of mathematical 

 hand-book of the ancient Egyptians; it was made in the 

 time of the Hyksos Kings (about 2000 B.C.), but is a copy 

 of an older book. It is now preserved in the British Mu- 

 seum. 



The most accessible recent sources of information as to the 

 social conditions of the ancient Egyptians are the works of 

 Maspero and Erman, above mentioned; and the various pub- 

 lications of W. M. Flinders Petrie, The Pyramids and Temples 

 of Gizeh, London, 1883; Tanis /., London, 1885; Tanis II. , 

 Nebesheh, and Defennel, London, 1887; Ten Years' Diggings, 

 London, 1892 ; Syria and Egypt from the Tel-el- Amarna Letters, 

 London, 1898, etc. The various works of Professor Petrie, 

 recording his explorations from year to year, give the fullest 

 available insight into Egyptian archaeology. 



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