Last update 02/Nov/1998
SCIAMVS means "let us know" (and not "let us ski") in Latin. First, it was thought as an acronym of a complete title: Sources and Studies in Classical, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Arabic and MedieVal exact Sciences or something like that.
Then, some began to ask, with good reason, "what about Babylonian science?" or "Arabic or Indian refer to region, while Classical or Medieval indicate period; isn't it a confusion of two distinct categories?" etc., etc. In the end, we abandoned the acronym but decided to keep the name SCIAMVS (with "V" not "U"), since it is so suitable for a journal for the sources of less known sciences of the past.