Culture and Cognition

Essays in Honor of Peter Damerow

1 Introduction
Jürgen Renn, Matthias Schemmel

Part 1: Early Writing and Abstraction

2 Learning from Kushim About the Origins of Writing and Farming
Jürgen Renn

3 What Is a Number? What Is a Concept? Who Has a Number Concept?
Jens Høyrup

4 Towards the Deciphering of the “Blau Monuments”: Some New Readings and Perspectives
Manfred Krebernik

5 The Chinese Sexagenary Cycle and the Origin of the Chinese Writing System
William G. Boltz

6 ‘Real Abstraction’ and the Origins of Intellectual Abstraction in Ancient Mesopotamia: Ancient Economic History as a Key to the Understanding and Evaluation of Marx’s Labor Theory of Value
Joachim Schaper

7 Meat Distribution in Late Uruk Diacritical Feasts: Second-Order Bookkeeping Techniques and their Institutional Context in Late Fourth Millennium BCE Mesopotamia
J. Cale Johnson

8 Pappus’ Theory in Mesopotamian Science
Markham J. Geller

9 Astronomical Knowledge in The Slavonic Apocalypse of Enoch: Traces of Ancient Scientific Models
Florentina Badalanova Geller

Part 2: History of Knowledge and Material Representations

10 Können Entwicklungspsychologie und Wissenschaftsgeschichte voneinander lernen?
Katja Bödeker

11 Piaget, Einstein, and the Concept of Time
Tilman Sauer

12 Zur historischen Epistemologie des Raumes
Matthias Schemmel

13 Paper Tools
Ursula Klein

14 Drawing Instruments
Wolfgang Lefèvre

15 Der Würfel auf der Spitze: Pieros inszenierter Blick
Diethelm Stoller

16 The Emergence of the Idea of Real Number in the Context of Theoretical Music in the Renaissance
Oscar Abdounur

Part 3: Societal Challenges and Electronic Visions

17 In anderen Zeiten. Die Idee des Comenius-Gartens
Henning Vierck

18 The Dramatic Pace of Acculturation and the Ability of So Many Eipo to Jump From Stone Age to Computer Age in One Generation … Without Having Read Aristotle
Wulf Schiefenhövel

19 A Textbook for Teaching Mathematics in Brazilian Indigenous Schools
Circe Mary Silva da Silva

20 Beyond Archimedes: The History and Future of the Arboreal Software
Mark J. Schiefsky

21 A Computational Research System for the History of Science
Julia Damerow, Erick Peirson, Manfred D. Laubichler

Part 4: A Glimpse of His Life

22 Peter Damerow (1939–2011)
Jürgen Renn

23 Es begann mit den Zahlen
Kristina Vaillant

24 Peter Damerow’s Publications