David Pingree
David Edwin Pingree | |
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Born | New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. | January 2, 1933
Died | November 11, 2005 Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. | (aged 72)
Academic work | |
Discipline | History of Science |
Institutions | Brown University Cornell University |
David Edwin Pingree (January 2, 1933,
Life
Pingree graduated from
He joined the History of Mathematics Department at Brown University in 1971, eventually holding the chair until his death.[3]
As successor to
Career
Jon McGinnis of the University of Missouri, St. Louis, describes Pingree's life-work thus:
... Pingree devoted himself to the study of the exact sciences, such as mathematics, mathematical astronomy and astral omens. He was also acutely interested in the transmission of those sciences across cultural and linguistic boundaries. His interest in the transmission of the exact sciences came from two fronts or, perhaps more correctly, his interest represents two sides of the same coin. On the one hand, he was concerned with how one culture might appropriate, and so alter, the science of another (earlier) culture in order to make that earlier scientific knowledge more accessible to the recipient culture. On the other hand, Pingree was also interested in how scientific texts surviving from a later culture might be used to reconstruct or cast light on our fragmentary records of earlier sciences. In this quest, Pingree would, with equal facility use ancient Greek works to clarify Babylonian texts on divination, turn to Arabic treatises to illuminate early Greek astronomical and astrological texts, seek Sanskrit texts to explain Arabic astronomy, or track the appearance of Indian astronomy in medieval Europe.[7]
In June 2007, the Brown University Library acquired Pingree's personal collection of scholarly materials. The collection focuses on the study of mathematics and exact sciences in the ancient world, especially India, and the relationship of Eastern mathematics to the development of mathematics and related disciplines in the West. The collection contains some 22,000 volumes, 700 fascicles, and a number of manuscripts. The holdings consist of both antiquarian and recent materials published in Sanskrit, Arabic, Hindi, Persian and Western languages.[8]
Awards
Recipient of a
Selected works
- 1968: Albumasaris de revolutionibus nativitatum (Teubner, Leipzig).
- 1970: Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit (5 volumes) American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.
- 1973: Hephaestionis Thebani Apotelesmaticorum libri III (vol. I; Teubner, Leipzig).
- 1974: Hephaestionis Thebani Apotelesmaticorum epitomae IV (vol. II; Teubner, Leipzig).
- 1976: Dorothei Sidonii carmen astrologicum (Teubner, Leipzig).
- 1978: The
- 1986: Vettii Valentis Antiocheni Anthologiarum Libri IX (Teubner, Leipzig).
- 1997: (edited with Charles Burnett) The Liber Aristotilis of Hugo of Santalla (Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts 26, London).
- 2002: (with Al-Birjandī on TadhkiraII, Chapter 11 and its Sanskrit Translation (Brill, Leiden).
- 2005: (with Erica Reiner) Babylonian Planetary Omens (Brill, Leiden).
- See the Worldcat listing for further titles.
- Articles in dictionaries and encyclopedias
- Pingree D., Brunner C. J. Astrology and astronomy in Iran // Encyclopædia Iranica
- Astrology // Britannica[12]
- Astrology // The Dictionary of the History of Ideas (1973–74)
References
- ^ "In Memoriam" Mathematical Association of America
- ^ David Pingree at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "A brief history of the Department ", Wilbour Hall
- ^ “Remembering David E. Pingree” Archived 2006-09-04 at the Wayback Machine, Jon McGinnis
- ^ "Inside Higher Ed's News". www.insidehighered.com. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
- ^ "Memorial" Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, Bulletin of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, pp. 5–6
- ^ Jon McGinnis (University of Missouri, St. Louis), Remembering David E. Pingree. The International Society for the History of Arabic/Islamic Science and Philosophy website. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
- ^ "Brown University Library Acquires Collection of David E. Pingree"
- ^ "David E. Pingree: An Unpublished Autobiography" Archived 2010-06-14 at the Wayback Machine, William M. Calder III and Stephan Heilen
- JSTOR 41693124.
- JSTOR 230349.
- ^ David E. Pingree Contributor
Sources and external links
- Memorial by Kim Plofker and Bernard R. Goldstein in Aestimatio (http://www.ircps.org/aestimatio/2/70-71)
- Memorial by Toke Lindegaard Knudsen in the Bulletin of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics https://web.archive.org/web/20070927032441/http://faculty.umf.maine.edu/~molinsky/cshpm/Bulletin/38-2006.pdf (pp. 5–6)
- Death notice in the Brown Daily Herald https://web.archive.org/web/20070929104430/http://www.browndailyherald.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&uStory_id=47d666ba-15db-402b-bd71-a539c61b03c5
- "An Indiana Jones of Mathematics" in the George Street Journal https://web.archive.org/web/20080516054525/http://www.brown.edu/Administration/George_Street_Journal/Pingree.html
- A collection of PDFs of some texts used by Dr. Pingree and his students, including a copy of a Heiberg edition of the Almagest used by Dr. Pingree himself: http://www.wilbourhall.org