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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 It consists of unpublished manuscripts and notes on early Mediterranean cultures and civilisation, pre-Christian Hebrew, Semitic and Arabian culture, as well as investigations into early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

Circular Abacus - Ancient theory of Unity

The file contains research on the ancient theory of Unity in the light of the Circular Abacus (ch1 provisional description of circular abacal calculation…; ch.2 ibn ezra’s elucidation of theory and practice of circular abacal calculation.; Ch. 3 evidence of the use of circular abacal calculation by greek and latin authors…; Ch. 4 aristotle’s problema XV on mediterranean calculation during 4th cent.BC)

Ancient Arithmetic

This file contains papers about ancient arithmetic or the science and art of Abacal Calculation (An inductive Study of Thautetus' Report of the famous lecture on Powers delivered at Athens by Theodorus the African).

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