Re: [HM] Indian astronomy and mathematics


Subject: Re: [HM] Indian astronomy and mathematics
From: Kim Plofker (Kim_Plofker@Brown.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 17:07:51 EST


Subject: "Pingree- Neugebauer debate"

Milo Gardner said:

>1. Kim's request for citations to the JHA clarifying the
> Pingree- Neugebauer debate is provided by the JTHFA,
> another journal, as I read my CSUS index. I hope that
> this clarification is sufficient.

   I'm afraid I'm still mystified; in the first place, I'm
not familiar with the latter two acronyms, and in the second
place, David Pingree tells me that he never had any published
controversy with Otto Neugebauer, much less a seventeen-year
debate with apologies, retractions, etc. I'm afraid there must
have been a misunderstanding in your source.

With best wishes,

Kim Plofker
Department of History of Mathematics
Brown University



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