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Alexander Jones

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Postdoctoral Researcher

Guest Scientist/ ZODIAC fellow Oct - Dez 2025

Alexander Jones is Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University. His work centers on the mathematical and physical sciences and parasciences of Greco-Roman antiquity, with particular emphasis on astronomy, its connections with astrology, and its interactions with the astronomies of contemporary cultures of the Mediterranean world and the Near East. Current projects include editions of Hellenistic astronomical papyri (in collaboration with Francesca Schironi) and of Greek astral papyri of the Roman period, and a synoptic study of the scientific writings of Claudius Ptolemy.

 

Selected publications: 

(With Roger Bagnall) Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts: A Codex from Late Antique Business Education (P.Math.). ISAW Monographs. New York: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and New York University Press, 2019.

A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Wonder of the Ancient Scientific World. New York: Oxford University Press USA, 2017.

(With various coauthors) Inscriptions of the Antikythera Mechanism. Almagest 7(1), 2016 (special issue).

(Editor) Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity. New York/Princeton: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World/Princeton University Press, 2016.

(With J. L. Berggren) Ptolemy's Geography: The Theoretical Chapters. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 233. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1999.