John E. Murdoch

John Emery Murdoch, often also John E. Murdoch, (* 1927, † 16 September 2010) is an American historian of science. He is a professor at the " Department of the History of Science", Harvard University.

Life and work

Murdoch received his doctorate in 1957 for Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin -Madison majoring in philosophy with a minor in History of Science. In the same year he went to Harvard, then taught for three years at Princeton University in 1963 and returned back to Harvard. Here he teaches since the " Department of the History of Science ," History of Science with a focus on ancient Greek and Latin late antiquity science and philosophy. His special interest is the concepts of infinity, continuity and limits early in the sciences.

He is also known for investigating the tradition of the Elements of Euclid. In the 1960s, he discovered a previously unknown translation from Greek into Latin, who prepared an unknown translator in Sicily in the 12th century, who also transferred the Almagest of Claudius Ptolemy.

1975 Murdoch Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was in charge of science and technology history. In 2009, he was honored for his scientific life's work with the George Sarton Medal, the highest prestigious award for the History of Science, founded by George Sarton and Lawrence Joseph Henderson History of Science Society ( HSS).

Publications (selection)

Murdoch published numerous articles on medieval science, mathematics and philosophy. In addition, he translated and commented on various posts to Euclid's Elements. His books include:

  • John E. Murdoch, Edith Dudley Sylla ( ed. ): ". The Cultural Context of Medieval Learning, Proceedings of the first International Colloquium on Philosophy, Science, and Theology in the Middle Ages September 1973. " D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht and Boston 1975.google books
  • John E. Murdoch: " Subtilitates Anglicanae in Fourteenth - Century Paris: John of Mirecourt and Peter Ceffons. " In Machaut 's World: Science and Art in the Fourteenth Century, ed Madeleine P. Cosman and Bruce Chandler, 1978, 51-86.
  • John E. Murdoch: "Album of Science: Antiquity and the Middle Ages". Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984
  • Edward Grant, John Emery Murdoch: " Mathematics and its Applications to Science and Natural Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of Marshall Clagett ". 1987
  • Christoph Lüthy, John E. Murdoch, William R. Newman ( ed.): Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theory. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2001.
  • Euclid: Transmission of the Elements, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Volume 4, Scribners 1971, p 437-459
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