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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EGYPTIAN MATHEMATICS
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welcher mehrfache Unrichtigkeiten enthālt, welche ich im Interesse der Leser der Zeitschrift berichtigen zu müssen glaube. Damit möchte ich gleichzeitig die Behauptung Brugsch's widerlegen, 'dass dem Verständniss des Ganzen kaum nennenswerthe Schwierigkeiten entgegen treten.'"

Eisenlohr, A., "Ueber altägyptische Maasse. Nach einem auf dem internationalen Orientalisten-Congress zu London gehaltenen Vor- trage," Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache . . . , vol. 13, 1875, pp. 40-50 + I plate.

Dated February 9, 1875.

1876

Eisenlohr, A., "Des mesures égyptiennes résultats des études du papyrus mathématique du musée Britannique," Transactions of the Second Session of the International Congress of Orientalists, Held in London in September, 1874, London, 1876, pp. 282—288.

A fuller report of this address is given in Eisenlohr (1875, 2).

Günther, S., Ziele und Resultate der neueren mathematisch-historischen Forschung. Erlangen, 1876, pp. 98-104.

Brief critical comments especially on the geometrical part of the Rhind papyrus.

1877

Cantor, M., "Wie man vor vierthalbtausend Jahren rechnete," Beilage zur Allgemeinen Zeitung, Augsburg, no. 249. September 6, 1877, pp. 3745-3747.

Popular account of Egyptian mathematics written shortly after the appearance of Eisenlohr (1877). In this same periodical, no. 263, September 20, 1877, pp. 3953-3954, "Der geometrische Papyrus,” F. J. Lauth discusses the date of the reign of Amememhat III and the date of the Rhind papyrus.

Eisenlohr, A., Ein mathematisches Handbuch der alten Ägypter' (Papyrus Rhind des British Museum) ūbersetzt und erklālrt, Leipzig, 1877, vol. I, Commentar, 4to, 4 + 296 pp. + 2 plates; vol. 2, Tafeln, large folio (40 X 48 cm.), 24 plates in black and red. "Zweite Ausgabe (ohne Tafeln)," 1891 (although the date on the title page is 1877), 4 + 278 pp. + 2 plates.

In this second edition before page 9 are the same tables as in the first edition; then follow four unnumbered pages of text which were pages 9-12 of the first edition. Pages 13-26 of the first edition are lacking in the second. With page 9 of the second edition (= page 27 of the first edition) commences an un-