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Mathematics and the medieval ancestry of physics
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Title
Mathematics and the medieval ancestry of physics / George Molland.
ISBN
0860784703
9780860784708
Published
Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Brookfield, Vt. : Variorum, 1995.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 volume (various pagings))
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2023.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 29, 2024
Series
Collected studies series ; CS481
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
An examination of Bradwardine's geometry
Campanus and Eudoxus; or, trouble with texts and quantifiers
Shifting the foundations: Descartes's transformation of ancient geometry
Implicit versus explicit geometrical methodologies: the case of construction
The geometrical background to the 'Merton school'
Richard Swineshead and continuously varying quantities
John Dumbleton and the status of geometrical optics
Cornelius Agrippa's mathematical magic
Ancestors of physics
Colonizing the world for mathematics: the diversity of medieval strategies
Roger Bacon as magician
Nicole Oresme and scientific progress
Medieval ideas of scientific progress
Mathematics in the thought of Albertus Magnus
The atomisation of motion: a facet of the scientific revolution
Continuity and measure in medieval natural philosophy
The Oresmian style: semi-mathematical, semi-holistic.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Mathematics - history
Physics - history
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