| LC control no. | n 85184015 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Jones, Alexander |
| Variant(s) | Jones, Alexander (Professor of History) Jones, Alexander, 1960- |
| Other standard no. | 0000000117678043 0000-0002-1538-8410 66498387 Q15454120 |
| Associated country | Canada United States |
| Associated place | Vancouver (B.C.) Providence (R.I.) Toronto (Ont.) New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1960 |
| Field of activity | Astronomy, Ancient Mathematics, Ancient Babylon (Extinct city)--Civilization |
| Affiliation | New York University. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World |
| Profession or occupation | Historians of science University and college faculty members |
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| Found in | Pappus, of Alexandria. Book 7 of Pappus' Collection, 1986: CIP title page (Alexander Jones) galley (Vancouver, B.C., Canada; submitted this work as his Ph. D. thesis to Brown University in 1985) Astronomical papyri from Oxyrhynchus, 1999: CIP title page (Alexander Jones) data sheet (born 1960) The Cambridge history of science. Volume 1, Ancient science, 2018: title page (Alexander Jones) page xiii (Alexander Jones, Leon Levy Director, Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World of New York University; research interest: contacts between Babylonian and Greco-Roman astronomy and astrology) Mathematics, metrology, and model contracts, 2019: ECIP title page (Alexander Jones) ECIP data view (Alexander Raymond Jones; born 1960) New York University, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World website, viewed July 12, 2021 (Alexander Jones, Leon Levy Director, Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity; on CV: Alexander Raymond Jones; studied Classics at the University of British Columbia and history of the ancient mathematical sciences at Brown University, where he obtained his Ph. D. in 1985 with a thesis on Book 7 of Pappus' Collection. Before coming to New York University, he spent 16 years teaching at the University of Toronto. Author of Astronomical papyri from Oxyrhynchus; co-editor of Mathematics, metrology, and model contracts) <https://isaw.nyu.edu/people/faculty/isaw-faculty/alexander-jones> |
| Associated language | eng grc |
| Invalid LCCN | no2019125175 no2019108958 |
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