>Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 21:23:36 +0200
>From: "Antreas P. Hatzipolakis" <xpolakis@hol.gr>
>Subject: Plato Bibliography 1992-1994
>
> Plato Bibliography 1992-1994
>by Luc Brisson, with the assistance of Frederic Plin (CNRS, Paris-Villejuif)
>
>English Page: http://callimac.vjf.cnrs.fr/BiblPlat/BPFrontEngl.html
>French Page: http://callimac.vjf.cnrs.fr/BiblPlat/BPFrontFrench.html
These must be electronic versions of the latest in a series of Plato
bibliographies that have been appearing in the bibliographic journal
Lustrum. Here are the earlier ones:
H Cherniss, Plato 1950-1957, Lustrum 4 (1959) 5-308 & 5 (1960) 321-656
L Brisson. Platon 1958-1975, Lustrum 20 (1977) 5-305
L Brisson & H Ioannidi, Platon 1975-1980, Lustrum 25 (1983) 31-320
L Brisson & H Ioannidi, Platon 1980-1985, Lustrum 30 (1988) 11-294,
corrigendum, Lustrum, (1989) 31 (1989) 270-272
L Brisson & H Ioannidi, Platon 1985-1990, Lustrum 34 (1992) 7-330
They consist mainly of lists of references, occasionally with two or three
lines of comment. But just look at their lengths!
Is there any indication, Antreas, that this latest installment will be
published in hard copy?
>This Bibliography contains some math-history related items. Just an example:
>Fowler, D. H., "Dynamis, mithartum, and square", HM 19, 1992, 418-419
And just look at the length of that! Yet it touches on two fundamental
problems underlying early Greek mathematics: the meanings and uses of the
Greek word dunamis (power, square, or square root?) and the influence or
not of Old Babylonian mathematics on the beginnings of Greek mathematics.
It may also touch on a third - I can't remember and don't have a copy here
- but I do remember that it also tells about me buying sand from a
builder's merchant. All human life is there.
I'm in the south of France, spending 10+ hours a day correcting the proofs
of and indexing the 2nd ed my Mathematics of Plato's Academy, and I've just
been looking at its bibliography - 21 pages. If this latest part of the
Plato bibliography will appear in a journal (Lustrum?) I'll slip it in.
David Fowler