Shaping the Sciences of the Ancient and Medieval World: Textual Criticism, Critical Editions and Translations of Scholarly Texts in History (Archimedes #69)

About the Author

Agathe Keller is senior research at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), within the SPHere (Science, Philosophy, History) research lab. Her work centers on the history of mathematics as found in Sanskrit sources, with a special focus on commentaries. She also studies the historiography of science in south Asia from the late 18th century to contemporary political discourses on traditional science in India. She has recently co-edited with K. Chemla and C. Proust, Cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world. (Springer, 2022). Karine Chemla, Senior Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), research group SPHERE (Université Paris Cité & CNRS). Her work focuses, from a historical anthropology viewpoint, on the relationship between mathematics and the various cultures in the context of which it is practiced. Chemla co-edited, with Glenn Most, Mathematical Commentaries in theAncient World: A Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2022); and, with A. Keller and C. Proust, Cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world. (Springer, 2022).