We have the pleasure to inform you that a new book has appeared in the book series “Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter”, published by Springer (https://www.springer.com/series/15657):
Mathematics, Administrative and Economic Activities in Ancient Worlds.Editors: Cécile Michel and Karine Chemla, 2020: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030483883
The following four titles have already been published:
- Pieces and Parts in Scientific Texts. Editors: Florence Bretelle-Establet and Stéphane Schmitt (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-78467-0)
- Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk. Editors: Christine Proust and John Steele (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-04176-2)
- Monographs in Tang Official Historiography Perspectives from the Technical Treatises of the History of Sui (Sui shu). Editors: Daniel Patrick Morgan and Damien Chaussende, with the collaboration of Karine Chemla (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-18038-6)
- The Making of a Scribe, Errors, Mistakes and Rounding Numbers in the Old Babylonian Kingdom of Larsa. Author: Robert Middeke-Conlin (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030359508)
Other titles are in preparation.
The editorial line of the book series is specified in its web page : (https://www.springer.com/series/15657). Should you wish to submit a project, or even a manuscript, to this collection, you are welcome to get in touch with any of us, or, alternatively, to download and fill up a form from the webpage of the book series.
On behalf of the editors of the series,
Karine Chemla, Agathe Keller et Christine Proust, editors of the series