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John Wee is a historian of medicine, astronomy, and mathematics in the ancient world, who works primarily with cuneiform manuscripts from Mesopotamia. He considers these histories relevant to our modernity, not only as a lineage to the present, but also as relatable strategies of problem solving ...
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John Wee is a historian of medicine, astronomy, and mathematics in the ancient world, who works primarily with cuneiform manuscripts from Mesopotamia. He considers these histories relevant to our modernity, not only as a lineage to the present, but also as relatable strategies of problem solving in indigenous cultures of mathematics and science. Querying the normativity of modern terminology, concepts, and categories in these fields, he situates their meanings instead in the ways ancient authors imagined and narrated their world.
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