Otto Neugebauer
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Otto E. Neugebauer (* 26 de mayo 1899 en Innsbruck; † 19 de febrero 1990) fue un matemático y astrónomo austriaco-americano dedicado exclusivamente a la investigación de la historia de la ciencia, y en especial de la Astronomía. Se conoce por ser un investigador muy tenaz y gran descubridor de la matemática Babilónica.
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- "The Early History of the Astrolabe." Isis 40 (1939): 240-56.
- "The Study of Wretched Subjects." Isis 42 (1951): 111.
- "On the 'Hippopede' of Eudoxus." Scripta Mathematica 19 (1953): 225-29.
- "Apollonius' Planetary Theory." Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 8 (1955): 641-48.
- "The Equivalence of Eccentric and Epicyclic Motion According to Apollonius." Scripta Mathematica 24 (1959): 5-21.
- "Thabit Ben Qurra 'On the Solar Year' and 'On the Motion of the Eighth Sphere.'" Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 106 (1962): 264-98.
- "On the Allegedly Heliocentric Theory of Venus by Heraclides Ponticus." American Journal of Philology 93 (1973): 600-601.
- "Notes on Autolycus." Centaurus 18 (1973): 66-69.
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- (with Abraham Sachs, eds.). Mathematical Cuneiform Texts. American Oriental Series, vol. 29. New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1945.
- The Exact Sciences in Antiquity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952; 2nd edition, Brown University Press, 1957; reprint, New York: Dover publications, 1969.
- Astronomical Cuneiform Texts. 3 volumes. London:1956; 2nd edition, New York: Springer, 1983. (Commonly abbreviated as ACT)
- The Astronomical Tables of al-Khwarizmi. Historiskfilosofiske Skrifter undgivet af Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Bind 4, nr. 2. Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, 1962.
- A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy 3 vols. Berlin: Springer, 1975. (Commonly abbreviated as HAMA)
- Astronomy and History: Selected Essays. New York: Springer, 1983.
