De Visione Stellarum
De Visione Stellarum

Author: Dan Burton

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9004153705

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In this critical edition of Nicole Oresme's 14th-century treatise on atmospheric refraction, Oresme uses optics and infinitesimals to help solve this vexing problem of astronomy, proposing that light travels along a curve through the atmosphere, centuries before Hooke and Newton.

In Measure, Number, and Weight
In Measure, Number, and Weight

Author: Jens Hoyrup

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1994-09-08

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780791418222

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Jens Hoyrup, recognized as the leading authority in social studies of pre-modern mathematics, here provides a social study of the changing mode of mathematical thought through history. His "anthropology" of mathematics is a unique approach to its history, in which he examines its pursuit and development as conditioned by the wider social and cultural context. Hoyrup moves from comparing features of Sumero-Babylonian, Mesopotamian, Ancient Greek, and Latin Medieval mathematics, to examining the character of Islamic practitioners of mathematics. He also looks at the impact of ideologies and philosophy on mathematics from Latin High Middle ages through the late Renaissance. Finally, he examines modern and contemporary mathematics, drawing out recurring themes in mathematical knowledge.

Vivarium
Vivarium

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13:

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"An international journal for the philosophy and intellectual life of the Middle Ages and Renaissance" (varies).

Traditio
Traditio

Author: Johannes Quasten

Publisher:

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13:

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Catalogue of offprints from vols. 1-20 in v. 20, p. [527]-541.