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Call Number: SC0933
Creator:
Knorr, Wilbur Richard, 1945-
Title: Wilbur Richard Knorr papers
Dates: 1963-1997
Physical Description:
60 linear feet
Summary: The papers document Knorr's career as scholar and professor and include lectures, research notes, publications, class files
(syllabi, student papers, class evaluations, course readers, etc.), photographic copies of sources and maps, and microfilm
of source materials.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
The collection was given to the Stanford University Archvies by the estate of Wilbur Richard Knorr in 1997.
The electronic files in accession 1997-196 are closed pending processing. The collection is otherwise open for research; materials
must be requested at least 48 hours in advance of intended use.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
[Identification of item], Wilbur Richard Knorr Papers (SC0933). Department of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Wilbur Richard Knorr, historian of science and the classics, was educated at Harvard (B.A. in 1966 and Ph. D. in 1973). He
taught at the University of California in Berkeley and at Brooklyn College before joining the Stanford faculty 1979 as an
assistant professor in the History of Science program, which he helped to develop. Although his interests were extraordinarily
broad, his focus was on the history of ancient Greek mathematics and its medieval continuations. He died in 1997.
The papers document Knorr's career as scholar and professor and include lectures, research notes, publications, class files
(syllabi, student papers, class evaluations, course readers, etc.), photographic copies of sources and maps, and microfilm
of source materials. The materials were received in three accessions; accession 1997-172 is unprocessed and not included in
this guide.
Knorr, Wilbur Richard, 1945-
Stanford University--Faculty.
Mathematics, Ancient.