How science survived: Medieval manuscripts' "demography" and classic texts' extinction

Science

Volumn 307, Issue 5713, 2005, Pages 1305-1307

  Cisne, John L ^a  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; FRACTIONATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

ANTIQUITY; MANUSCRIPTS; PALEODEMOGRAPHY;

TEXT PROCESSING;

PUBLISHING; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CALCULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; GROWTH RATE; HALF LIFE TIME; PALEONTOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MANUSCRIPTS; MARKOV CHAINS; MATHEMATICS; PROBABILITY; SCIENCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 14544267642     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1104718     Document Type: Article

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20. I thank R. Ziomkowski, F. Vermeylen, P. Stevens, C. Labandeira, F. King, B. Fisher, J. Chiment, and two anonymous reviewers for help and encouragement. Any errors are mine.