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Numbers on the Visigothic Slates: A Cognitive Approach. [PDF]

Top Cogn Sci
Abstract Numerical notation found on multiple slates from Early Medieval Visigothic Iberia remains undeciphered. Previous studies have proposed that they simply represent Roman numerals. However, the comparative study of the numbers on the written and numerical slates suggests that they do not in fact represent the same graphic code.
Fernández Cadenas N.
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Mathematics in the archives: deconstructive historiography and the shaping of modern geometry (1837–1852) [PDF]

The British Journal for the History of Science, 2021
AbstractThis essay explores the research practice of French geometer Michel Chasles (1793–1880), from his 1837 Aperçu historique up to the preparation of his courses on ‘higher geometry’ between 1846 and 1852. It argues that this scientific pursuit was jointly carried out on a historiographical and a mathematical terrain.
Michel, Nicolas, Smadja, Ivahn
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Ludi Matematici by Leon Battista Alberti

Diségno, 2020
  Along with his humanistic interests, Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was attracted to the world of scientific knowledge both during his youth, while studying physics and mathematics, and when he definitively returned to Rome in 1443 following Pope ...
Ornella Zerlenga
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Which Hermeneutical Method Is Suggested by the New Historiography of Science

Critical Hermeneutics, 2023
Whereas “Science does not think" (Heidegger), the "new historiography of science" - mainly Koyré's and Kuhn's ones - has addressed our minds to think about science in a new way.
Antonino Drago
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Cry "Good for history, Cambridge and Saint George"? Essay Review of Mary Jo Nye (Ed.); The Cambridge History of Science, Vol. 5. The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) [PDF]

, 2004
FIRST PARAGRAPH This volume is the third thus far published of The Cambridge history of science, planned in eight parts over the last decade by Cambridge University Press.
Gooday, G.
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Restoring the Stalingrad Region: Peculiarities of Using State and Organising, Financial and Credit Resources of the USSR in 1943-1944

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2018
Historical experience in the Great Patriotic War and analysis of the main events, such as “the radical turn” and the battle for Stalingrad, are relevant to researchers not only due to anniversary of the War but also because of ongoing projects of ...
Tatyana V. Lokhova, Elena M. Malysheva
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Epistemic Complexity of the Mathematical Object “Integral”

Mathematics, 2021
The literature in mathematics education identifies a traditional formal mechanistic-type paradigm in Integral Calculus teaching which is focused on the content to be taught but not on how to teach it.
Enrique Mateus-Nieves, Vicenç Font Moll
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