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Aaboe, Asger. Episodes From The Early History of Mathematics. The Mathematical Association of America. Washington, D.C., 1964. Aldred, Cyril. The Egyptians. Thames and Hudson. London, 1987. Badawy, Alexander. Ancient Egyptian Architectural Design. University of California Press. 1965. Baines, John and Malek, Jaromir. Atlas of Ancient Egypt. Facts on File, Inc. New York, 1993. Bidwell, James K. "A Babylonian Geometrical Algebra". College Mathematics Journal. Vol. 17, no.1 (January 1986), pp. 23-31. Cole, J.H. Survey of Egypt, Paper No. 39: "The Determination of the Exact Size and Orientation of the Great Pyramid of Giza". Cairo, 1925. Diodorus of Sicily. On Egypt. Translated by Edwin Murphy. London, 1985. Edwards, I.E.S. The Pyramids of Egypt. Penguin Books. London, 1985. Engels, Hermann. "Quadrature of the Circle in Ancient Egypt. Historia Mathematica 4 (1977), pp. 137-140. Frankfort, Henri. "The Origin of Monumental Architecture in Egypt". AJSL Vol. LVIII, no.4 (October 1941). Friberg, Joran. "Mathematik". Reallexikon der Assyriologie (1990), pp. 531-585.
Gillings, Richard J. Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs. Dover Publications. New York, 1972.
Habachi, Labib. The Obelisks of Egypt. Scribner's Sons. New York, 1977. Heath, Sir Thomas L. The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements. 3 vols. Dover Publications. New York, 1956.
Herodotus. The History. Translated by David Grene. University of Chicago Press. Chicago, 1987. Høyrup, Jens. "Investigations of an Early Sumerian Division Problem, c.2500 B.C." Historia Mathematica, 9 (1982), pp. 19-36.
Huntley, H.E. The Divine Proportion. Dover Publications. New York, 1970. Isler, Martin. "An Ancient Method of Finding and Extending Direction". JARCE XXVI (1989), pp. 191-206.
Isocrates. Busiris. Located in Volume 3 of the Larue Van Hook translation of Isocrates' works. Harvard University Press, 1961. Kantor, Helene J. "Further Evidence for Early Mesopotamian Relations With Egypt". JNES XI (1952), pp. 239-250. Lawlor, Robert. Sacred Geometry. Crossroad. New York, 1982. Legon, John, A.R. "The Cubit and the Egyptian Canon of Art", DE 35 (1996), pp. 61-76. See also: http://www.legon.demon.co.uk/ Lumpkin, Beatrice. "The Egyptians and Pythagorean Triples". Historia Mathematica, 7 (1980), pp. 186-187. Neugebauer, O. The Exact Sciences in Antiquity. Dover Publications. New York, 1969.
Parker, R.A. "Egyptian Astronomy, Astrology, and Calendrical Reckoning". Dictionary of Scientific Biography, XV Supplement 1. Scribner's Sons, New York. 1978. Peet, T. E. The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus. London, 1923. Petrie, W.M.Flinders. Measures and Weights. Methuen & Co. London, 1934. The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh. London, 1883. Link here for the online version of this work. Plato. Plato: The Collected Dialogues. E. Hamilton and H. Cairns, editors. Princeton University Press, 1982. Powell, Marvin A. Jr. "The Origin of the Sexagesimal System: The Interaction of Language and Writing." Visible Language,VI (Winter 1972), pp. 5-18.
Proctor, Richard A. Great Pyramid: Observatory, Tomb and Temple. London, 1888. Robins, Gay. Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art. University of Texas Press, 1994.
Robinson, Arthur H., et al. Elements of Cartography. Wiley, 1984. Seidenberg, A. "The Ritual Origin of Geometry". Archive for History of Exact Sciences. Vol.1 no.5 (1960), pp. 488-527. Sellers, Jane B. The Death of Gods in Ancient Egypt. Penguin Books. London, 1992. The author has asked that I note here that a newly revised, self-published, edition is available through http://www.Fatbrain.com/. Also see http://www.egyptian-eclipses.com/eclipse/. Smyth, Piazzi. The Great Pyramid: Its Secrets Revealed. Crown, 1978 Spalinger, Anthony. "Some Remarks on the Epagomenal Days in Ancient Egypt". JNES, V.54 (1995), pp. 33-47. Wheeler, Noel F. "Pyramids and Their Purpose". Antiquity 9 (1935), pp. 5-21. DE = Discussions in Egyptology JNES = Journal For Near Eastern Studies AJSL = American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures JARCE Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt Links To Other Sites of Related Interest Greg Reeder's Egypt Page (http://www.egyptology.com/reeder/) Nigel Strudwick's Egyptology Resources (http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/egypt/index.html) Columbia University - AFRICAN STUDIES and MIDDLE EAST STUDIES (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/Africa/AncEgypt.html) Egyptian Unit Fractions (http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/numth/egypt/) R. Knott's Egyptian Fraction Page (http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fractions/egyptian.html#ef) Babylonian
and Egyptian mathematics A page on The Golden Ratio (http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/phi.html) On-line works of Livio Stecchini (http://www.metrum.org/) Articles by John A. R. Legon (http://www.legon.demon.co.uk/) Pyramid blocks from a poured concrete mixture? (http://www.geopolymer.org/archaeo1a.html) Anthony's Egyptology links (http://www.osirisweb.com/egypt/links.htm) Ancient World Web Links Page (http://www.julen.net/ancient/) List of Pyramid Correlations & Coincidences (http://www.hunkler.com/pyramids/pyramid_symbolism.html) BI666 New Genesis Links Below
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