Program

Research Programs: Humanities, Science, and Technology

Period of Performance

9/1/1991 - 8/31/1994

Funding Totals

$54,000.00 (approved)
$52,672.50 (awarded)


Ptolemy and the Foundations of Ancient Mathematical Optics

FAIN: RH-20929-90

Mizzou (Columbia, MO 65211-3020)
A. Mark Smith (Project Director: October 1989 to January 1995)

To support the preparation of a guide for Ptolemy's OPTICS in order to make this mathematical work of the Hellenistic period accessible to the general reader.