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Neugebauer Microform Index of the Exact Sciences

出版	Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science, 2007
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ewvvjwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The Neugebauer Index of the Exact Sciences was compiled over some 50 years, beginning about 1930, by Otto Neugebauer, an Austrian-American mathematician and historian of science who became known for his research on the history of astronomy and the other exact (i.e., mathematical) sciences in antiquity and into the Middle Ages. It consists of 26,002 file-cards; on these cards are written by hand the very detailed and meticulous notes which Neugebauer used for research and publication throughout his career. These cards fall into two types. The first are subject-cards which divide the history of the exact sciences by time period, culture (Classical Greek and Roman, Babylonian, Egyptian, Islamic, Judaic, Byzantine, European) and topic (the various branches of the mathematical sciences such as arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, astronomy; scientific instruments, calendars, lexica, and so on). These subject-cards are keyed to the second type of cards, the bibliographical cards which record the literature and documents that Neugebauer consulted. The index is an archival document intended only to serve as a guide for others in their research; it will not be updated and it is not an authoritative reference work.