Johan Ludvig Heiberg (historian)
- Johan Ludvig Heiberg (historian)
Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854–1928) was a Danish philologist and historian. He is best known for his discovery of previously unknown texts in the Archimedes Palimpsest, and for his edition of Euclid's Elements that T. L. Heath translated into English.
Heiberg was Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Copenhagen from 1896 until 1924. Among his more than 200 publications were editions of the works of Archimedes (1880 and 1912), Euclid (with Heinrich Menge) (1883-1916), Apollonius of Perga (1891-93), Serenus of Antinouplis (1896), Ptolemy (1898), and Hero of Alexandria (1899). Many of his editions are still in use today.
Archimedes Palimpest
Heiberg inspected the vellum manuscript in Constantinople in 1906, and realized that it contained mathematical works by Archimedes that were unknown to scholars at the time.
Heiberg's examination of the manuscript was with the naked eye only, while modern analysis of the texts has employed x-ray and ultraviolet light. The Archimedes Palimpsest is currently stored at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.
External links
* [http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/mediacenter_articles-1-5-07.html The Archimedes Palimpsest at the Walters Art Museum]
* [http://www.wilbourhall.org PDF scans of Heiberg's edition of the Works of Archimedes, now in the public domain] (Text in Classical Greek)
* [http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/HistTopics/Greek_sources_1.html How do we know about Greek mathematics?]
* [http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/HistTopics/Greek_sources_2.html How do we know about Greek mathematicians?] Persondata
NAME=Heiberg, Johan Ludvig
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Danish philologist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH=1854
PLACE OF BIRTH=Denmark
DATE OF DEATH=1928
PLACE OF DEATH=Denmark
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