Unguru Sabetai, Cohn Institute


Short Curriculum Vitae (highlights):


Sabetai Unguru was born in Podul-Ilonaiei, Romania on January 1, 1931,
and studied philosophy, philology, history and mathematics at the
University "Al. I. Cusa" in Jassy. In 1961 he emigrated to Israel, and
in 1966 went to the United States where he recieved, in 1970, his Ph.D.
in history of science from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Between 1970-1982 he was an Assistant and Associate Professor in the
Department of History at the University of Oklahoma.

Coming back to Israel, in 1983 he was appointed Associated Professor at
the newly created Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science
and Ideas at Tel-Aviv University. Since 1987 he is full Professor at the
renamed Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and
Ideas. Since 1991 he serves as Director of the Institute.

He is married to Yocheved Unguru and has two children.



Major publications (books and major articles):


Books:

1. "Apollonius of Perga's Conica
Text, Context, Subtext" by
Michael N.Fried
Sabetai Unguru

2. "Witelonis Perspectivae Liber Primus: Book I of Vitelo's
Perspectiva", an English translation with introduction, commentary and
Latin Edition, The Polish Academy of Science Press, Studia Copernicana
vol. XV (1977).

3. "Witelonis Perspectivae Libri Duo - Liber Secundus et Liber Tertius:
Books II and III of Vitelo's Perspectiva", an English translation with
introduction, commentary, notes and Critical Latin Edition, The Polish
Academy of Science Press, Studia Copernicana vol. XXVII (1991).

4. "An Introduction to the History of Mathematics: Antiquity and the
Middle Ages", Ministry of Defence Publications (Tel Aviv 1989, 2nd ed.
1996), Hebrew.

5. "An Introduction to the History of Mathematics: The Renaiisance and
Modern Era", Ministry of Defence Publications (Tel Aviv 1989), Hebrew.

And numerous articles in the academic and semi-popular press.


Teaches in the following subject areas:


History of mathematics, history of science, ancient and medieval
science, ancient and medieval mathematics, medieval optics.


Teaches the following courses in the current academic year:


Euclid and the Elements
Apollonius of Perga's Conica
Selected Texts in Hellenistic Mathematics

Areas of current research interest:


Ancient greek mathematics, Apollonius' Conica, medieval optics.



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