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The following is copied from René Taton's entry for Paul Tannery in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY I. Original Works. Lists of Tannery’s works were published by Marie Tannery in Mémoires de la société des sciences physiques et naturelles de Bordeaux, 6th ser., 4 (1908), 299–382; and by P. Louis in Tannery’s Mémoires scientifiques, XVII (Toulouse – Paris, 1950), 61–117, G. Eneström presented “Liste des travaux de Paul Tannery sur les mathématiques et la philosophie des mathématiques”, in Bibliotheca mathematica, 3rd ser., 6 (1905), 292–304. Shorter bibliographies have been offered by G. Sarton in Osiris, 4 (1938), 703–705; and by R. Taton in Revue d’histoire des sciences et de leurs applications, 7 (1954), 369–371. And on the occasion of his candidacy at the College de France in Apr. 1903, Tannery drew up “Titres scientifiques de Paul Tannery”, reproduced in Mémoires, X , 125–136.

Tannery’s published work consists of several books, major editions of scientific writings, and a very large number of articles. The three principal books are devoted to ancient science; Pour l’histoire de la science heiléne. De Thalès à Empédocle (Paris, 1887); 2nd ed. prepared by A. Diés with a pref. by F. Enriques (Paris, 1930); La géométrie grecque.....,I, Histoire générale de la géométrie élémentaire (Paris, 1887), the only part to be published ; and Recherches sur l’histoire de l’astronomie ancienne (Paris, 1893). A fourth, briefer publication concerned the preparation of the ed. of Descartes; La correspondance de Descartes dans les inédits du fonds Libri (Paris, 1893).

His major eds. of scientific works are Oeuvres de Fermat, 3 vols. (Paris, 1891–1896), edited with C. Henry, plus IV (Compléments), published by C. Henry (1912), and V (Suppléments) (1922), published by C. de Waard; Diophanti Alexandrini opera omnia, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1893–1895); and Oeuvres de Descartes, 12 vols. and supp. (Paris, 1897–1913), with C. Adam – Tannery participated in the editing of vols. I-VII and IX . He also began work on eds. that were continued at the urging of Mme Tannery: Correspondance du P. Marin Mersenne, C. de Waard, R. Pintard, and B. Rochot, eds. (Paris, 1932- ); and Georgius Pachymeres, Quadrivium, E. Stéphanou, ed. (Vatican City, 1940).

Most of Tannery’s articles, as well as his correspondence, were collected in the Mémoires scientifiques, published by Mme Tannery with the aid of several historians of science. The material is grouped as follws: I-III , Sciences exactes dans l’antiquité (Toulouse – Paris, 1912–1915); IV , Sciences exactes chez les Byzantins (1920); V , Sciences exactes au Moyen Āge (1922); VI , Sciences modernes (1926); VII , Philosophie ancienne (1925); VIII , Philosophie moderne (1927); IX , Philologie (1929); X Supplément au tome VI. Sciences modernes. Généralités historiques (1930); XI-XII , Comptes-rendus et analyses (1931–1933); XIII-XVI , Correspondance (1934–1943); and XVII ,Biographie, bibliographie, compléments et tables (1950).

The bibliography given by P. Louis in Mémoires scientifiques, XVII , 61–117, which indicates the vol. and first pg. of the works reproduced in this ed., also lists articles not in the Mémoires, including the 200 articles Tannery wrote for the Grand encyclopédie and his notes to certain chapters of the Encyclopédie des sciences mathématiques. Vol. XVII of the Mémoires also contains a “Table analytique des mémoires scientifiques”, 449–494, which considerably facilitates working with this rich and varied collection of studies, as well as an index of Greek words, 495–506.

II. Secondary Literature. See the following, listed chronologically: Charles Adam, “Paul Tannery et l’édition de Descartes,” in Oeuvres de Descartes, C. Adam and P. Tannery, eds., VIII , v–xviii; H. Bosmans, “Notice sur les travaux de Paul Tannery,” in Revue des questions scientifiques, 3rd ser., 8 (1905), 544–574; Discours prononcés aux obsèques de M. Paul Tannery… (Toulouse. 1905); P. Duhem, “Paul Tannery (1843 – 1904),” in Revue de philosophie, 5 , no. 1 (1905), 216–230; F. Picavet. “Paul Tannery, historien de la philosophie,” in Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 3rd ser., 18 (1905), 293 – 302; J. Tannery, “Notice sur Paul Tannery,” in Rapports et compte-rendus du lle Congrès international de philosophie (Geneva, 1905), 775 – 797, also in Mémoires de la Société des sciences physiques et naturelles de Bordeaux, 6th ser., 4 (1908), 269–293: H.-G. Zeuthen, “L’oeuvre de Paul Tannery comme historien des mathématiques,” in Bibliotheca mathematica, 3rd ser., 6 (1905), 260 – 292; G. Milhaud, “Paul Tannery,” in Revue des idées, 3 (1906), 28 – 39, also in Nouvelles études sur l’histoire de la pensée scientifique (Paris, 1911), 1–20; P. Duhem, “Paul Tannery et la Socieété des sciences physiques et naturelles de Bordeaux,” in Mémoires de la Société des sciences physiques et naturelles de Bordeaux, 6th ser., 4 (1908), 295 – 298; and A. Rivaud, “Paul Tannery, historien de la science antique,” in Revue de métaphysique et de morale, 11 (1913), 177 – 210.

Later works are G. Loria, “Paul Tannery et son oeuvre d’historien,” in Archeion (Rome). 11 (1929). lxxx–xcii: J. Nussbaum, Paul Tannery et l’histoire des physiologues milésiens (Lausanne, 1929); F. Enriques, “La signification et l’importance de l’histoire de la science et l’oeuvre de Paul Tannery,” in Paul Tannery. Pour l’histoire de la science hellène, 2nd ed. (Paris, 1930), xi – xxi: Marie Tannery, P. Boutroux, and G. Sarton, “Paul Tannery,” “L’oeuvre de Paul Tannery,” and “Bibliographie des travaux de Paul Tannery,” in Osiris, 4 (1938), 633 – 705; G. Sarton, “Paul, Jules and Marie Tannery,” in Isis, 38 (1947), 33–51: and P. Louis, “Biographie de Paul Tannery,” in Tannery’s Mémoires scientifiques, XVII , 1 – 49. The last two articles contain an account of the Wyrouboff affair. See also a group of articles by H. Berr, S. Delorme, J. Itard, R. Lenoble, P.-H. Michel, G. Sarton, P. Sergescu, J. Tannery, and R. Taton in Revue d’histoire des sciences et de leurs applications, 7 (1954), 297 – 368.

There are accounts of the life and work of Marie Tannery by P. Ducassé, in Osiris, 4 (1938), 706 – 709; P. Louis, in Tannery’s Mémoires scientifiques, XVII , 51 – 59; G. Sarton, in Isis, 38 (1947), 44–47, 50: and C. de Waard, in Revue d’histoire des sciences et de leurs applications, 2 (1948), 90 – 94.