Topical Essays
TOPICAL ESSAYS
PREFACE 531
HISTORY OF MATHEMATICAL ASTRONOMY IN INDIA
David Pingree 533
MAN AND NATURE IN MESOPOTAMIAN CIVILIZATION
A. Leo Oppenheim 634
MATHEMATICS AND ASTRONOMY IN MESOPOTAMIA
B. L. van der Waerden 667
THE MATHEMATICS OF ANCIENT EGYPT
R. J. Callings 681
EGYPTIAN ASTRONOMY, ASTROLOGY, AND CALENDRICAL RECKONING
Richard A. Parker 706
JAPANESE SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT
Shigeru Nakayama 728
MAYA NUMERATION, COMPUTATION, AND CALENDRICAL ASTRONOMY
Floyd G. Lounsbury 759
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