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Charles Alexander Brodie-Brockwell Fonds
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Charles Alexander Brodie-Brockwell Fonds

  • CA MUA MG 4248
  • Fonds
  • 1923-1960

This fonds comprises of the research work of C.A. Brodie-Brockwell. It consists of unpublished manuscripts and notes on early Mediterranean cultures and civilisation, pre-Christian Hebrew, Semitic and Arabian culture, as well as investigations into early calendars and methods of counting (boxes 1- 6, and box 7, files 1-8, 10). Other files include: hand-drawn maps of peoples of Europe in different times (box 7, file 9); lecture named “A New Interpretation of the Parable of the So-Called Unjust Steward” (box 7, file 11); correspondence (box7, file 12); dictionary notebook (box 7, File 13).

The binders with manuscripts are arranged by subjects, discerned from their titles and content.

Brodie-Brockwell, Charles Alexander

An inductive study of the ancient science and art of counting and of measuring time

This file contains research on an inductive study of the ancient science and art of counting and of measuring time. Volume 1 – The science and art of counting in the light of the notational and numerational machinery, approached primarily from the side of Roman culture. Volume 2 - The science and art of measuring historical time, but more essentially longevities approached primarily from the side of Hebrew culture.( not here).

Ancient Hebrew notation

This file contains research on ancient Hebrew notation in the light of Ibn Ezra’s notational teaching and the circular abacal diagrams whereby he exemplifies it. (pp. 1-90); Typical examples of the septuagint expression of Hebrew numbers one form of which is always a unit higher or lower than the Hebrew and thus enables us to distinguish Hebrew point from Hebrew interval numerals. (pp. 1-20)

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