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ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL TRADITIONS IN THE EXACT SCIENCES
ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF WILBUR KNORR |
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Patrick Suppes, J.M. Moravcsik, Henry Mendell |
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ISBN 10: |
1575862743 |
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9781575862743 |
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
Pub. date: |
1 January, 2001 |
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Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes |
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240 |
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This volume of essays is dedicated to the late Wilbur Knorr, a historian of science. Inspired by Knorr's work, the essays concentrate on the history of ancient mathematics, the associated mathematical sciences and their medieval and modern traditions. |
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This volume of essays is dedicated to the late Wilbur Knorr, a historian of science. Inspired by Knorr's work, the essays concentrate on the history of ancient mathematics, the associated mathematical sciences and their medieval and modern traditions. Topics include: a study of geometric analysis and sythesis in ancient Greece and medieval Islam; an examination of Eudoxus as originator for the ideas of proportionality underlying Book V of "Euclid's Elements"; the extent that Renaissance theorists of linear perspective had access to ancient sources; a discussion of the geometrical chemistry of Plato's "Timaeus" and its interpretation in antiquity, as well as a study of Plato's concept of numbers and its relation to the Theory of Forms; and the history of science in a chronology of three dynasties in China. |
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University of Chicago Press |
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