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Robert Grosseteste: the geometry to solve the complexity of the world [PDF]
, 2013 Robert Grosseteste: the geometry to solve the complexity of the world, by Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, Politecnico di Torino, Department of Applied Science and Technology. Italy Abstract: Robert Grosseteste, an English philosopher and scientist, Bishop of
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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Relations Without Polyadic Properties: Albert the Great On the Nature and Ontological Status of Relations [PDF]
, 2001 I think it would be fair to say that, until about 1900, philosophers were generally reluctant to admit the existence of what are nowadays called polyadic properties.1 It is important to recognize, however, that this reluctance on the part of pre ...
Brower, Jeffrey E.
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Cube root extraction in medieval mathematics
Historia Mathematica, 2011 1. ``Introduction'' führt in diese Problematik in der chinesischen, arabischen und mittelalterlichen europäischen Mathematik vom 11. bis zum 14. Jahrhundert ein. \textit{P. Luckey} [1948] und \textit{Chemla} [1994] gliederten diesbezügliche Untersuchungen zweifach, nämlich: ``one in China and eastern parts of the Arabic regions, and one in the central ...
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This essay demonstrates how a gender‐informed, more‐than‐human lens can provide new ways to analyse how the role of a queen in forestry management was conceptualised by sixteenth‐century professional men. It explores these ideas as they are presented in a work published by Guillaume Martin, Lieutenant General of the forests and waterways of ...
Susan Broomhall
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What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
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ISLAM DAN ILMU PENGETAHUAN : REKOGNISI PENDIDIKAN ISLAM DI BARAT ABAD KLASIK
FitrahThe development of education in the world is inseparable from the contributions of Islam, which has played a significant role in it. Consequently, Islam holds a legitimate position in terms of the quality of education, which should be acknowledged ...
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Recovering Two Lost Treatises on Approximating the Sine of 1 ° from Qushjī’s Commentary on Zīj-i Ṣulṭānī [PDF]
Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and SciencesThe accuracy of medieval approximations of the Sine of 1° reached its peak with the works of the Persian mathematician and astronomer Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd al-Kāshī (d. 832/1429), and his patron Ulugh Beg (d.
Fateme Savadi
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Background perspectives on infinity and God
In die Skriflig, 2019 Initially the connection between divinity and infinity was accompanied by an initial notion of infinity in the literal sense of one, another one, and so on – without an end, endless. Via Anaxagoras we reach Aristotle for whom it would be contradictory to
Danie F.M. Strauss
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Sebastian Izquierdo on Universals [PDF]
, 2017 The paper deals with the theory of universals of Sebastian Izquierdo, a Spanish Jesuit author working in Rome, as he formulated and defended it in Disputation 17 of his major philosophical work The Lighthouse of Sciences, published in Lyon in 1659 ...
Novotný, Daniel D.
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